Pablo Bronstein: Intermezzo
Pablo BronsteinOctober 28, 2010 8PM
admission: free, on a first come first serve basis
- Pablo Bronstein, Itermezzo, 2009.
- Performed by Adam Linder. Performance still from Tate Modern, London
- Courtesy Herald St, London
Intermezzo by Pablo Bronstein uses the conventional format of the lecture as a starting point, transforming a partly informative presentation on the 16th century French painter Antoine Caron into a dance exploration of gesture and space. Bronstein uses the subject of Caron, in some ways as a decoy to the subject of the 16th century intermezzo, an elaborate form of court entertainment often performed between acts of a play or at festivals and celebrations. When switching topics, Bronstein pronounces, “the power of the illusion on stage is rendered void.” This seems to be true of the lecture on Caron, which, to illustrate the intermezzo, turns into a ballet that both disrupts and speaks to the format of the lecture.
Bronstein first performed this work in 2009 for the Tate Modern, London and will expand upon it at the Western Front as part of the exhibition Following a Line the exhibition currently on view at the Contemporary Art Gallery.
Co-presented with the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver.
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