Performance, War, Politics and EroticismFeminine Futures
| Nov ’09 |
| 3 |
| 7:00 pm |
Opening November 3, 7-9pm
Exhibition on view from 10am-4om daily
Lust Weekend: November 7 and 8, 11 am-4pm
An exhibition of 360 paper-based early 20th Century works from the Adrien Sina Collection including rare letters, photographs, documents, and manifestos written by or relating to Valentine de Saint-Point, the French poet, dancer, and thinker who wrote the “Manifesto of Lust” in 1913 and was one of the few women to establish herself within the Futurist movement.
Valentine de Saint-Point (1875-1953) was one of the few women who established themselves within the Futurist movement. She is the author of the “Manifesto of the Futurist Woman” (1912), a response to Marinetti’s vision of women in the Manifesto of Futurism, and the “Manifesto of Lust” (1913), a highly controversial text which states that lust is a catalyst for creative energy and explores questions related to gender, war, and art. A key figure in the intellectual life of her time, Saint-Point exiled herself in New York during World War I, where she developed la Metachorie, a new form of art mixing dance, theater, music, and poetry. She spent the last 20 years of her life in Egypt and the Middle East, where she converted to Islam and committed herself to defending the rights of women and fighting European colonialism.
Including work by: Valentine de Saint-Point, Loïe Fuller, Isadora Duncan, Anna Duncan, Ruth St. Denis, Mata Hari, Gertrude Hoffman, Anna Pavlova, Vera Fokina, Ida Rubinstein, Eleonora Duse, Lyda Borelli, Giannina Censi, Karola Zopegni, Elena Sangro, Evan Burrows Fontaine, Josephine Baker, Mary Wigman, Edith von Schrenck, Chari-Lindis, Niddy Impekoven, Valeria Kratina, Gret Palucca, Valeska Gert, Ruth Page, Myra Kinch, Martha Graham
and their intellectual partners…
F.T. Marinetti, Ricciotto Canudo, Enrico Prampolini, Luigi Russolo, Anton Giulio Bragaglia, Nelson Morpurgo, Armando Mazza, Ardengo Soffici, Wassily Kandinsky, Rudolf von Laban, Hedwig Hagemann, and Harald Kreutzberg.
Curated by Adrian Sina and Sarah Wilson.
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