Vocabulary Lesson

CORO Collective

• Swiss Institute
• 495 Broadway, 3rd Floor
• Monday, November 16 9:00pm

Coro= Egle & Goda Budvytyte & Ieva Miseviciute

Coro collective (Amsterdam, Vilnius) is known to transform any public space into a music video, dividing the crowd into both cameras and participants. For Swiss Institute, Coro presents Vocabulary Lesson, an articulated history of dance, music and architecture. Borrowing from filmic language, the performers employ “vogue” to riff on modernism. The resulting video sequences would shock Gertrude Stein, Miles Davis and even Frank Zappa, all of whom are known as auteurs of the phrase “Talking about music is like dancing about architecture”.

For more than four years CORO collective has produced  interdisciplinary works that bring together strategies of performance and visual art. Their projects take on the form of publications, installations, radio recordings, performances, and videos. CORO has exhibited works at Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius; Former Palace of Radvilai, Vilnius; Fondazione Sandretto Rebaundengo, Torino Italy and Brewery Art Centre, Kendal, UK. Their project Vocabulary Lesson is shown at Swiss Institute simultaneously as their exhibition of the same name at SMART Project Space, Amsterdam.

FREE