PERFORMA 05 Commissions
Jesper Just, True Love is Yet to Come, 2005 (Production Still).
Courtesy the artist and PERFORMA.
PERFORMA05. Photo: Paula Court
Jesper JustTrue Love Is Yet To Come,
PERFORMA commissioned Danish artist Jesper Just to create his first live multimedia performance for PERFORMA05. True Love Is Yet To Come portrayed the conflict between rationality and passion in a reserved man yearning to liberate his innermost feelings. Just explored the subject of love, and its many changeable qualities ‘ unrequited, mysterious, sentimental, and romantic ‘ through an intriguing all-male cast whose emotional nakedness was underscored by a noir sensibility.
Just worked with Danish production company Vision3 to realize this large-scale production. Life-like and life-sized three-dimensional film of singers, as well as members of the Finnish Men’s Screaming Choir (Huutajat)’were projected alongside a live singer, Baard Owe.
A PERFORMA Commission. Produced in association with Vision3, and made possible with generous support from the Danish Arts Council, Stephan Weiss Studio and Perry Rubenstein Gallery.
Read more about Jesper Just’s PERFORMA Commission on the PERFORMA05 website.
Francis Alÿs, Rehearsal II
Poster announcement for Francis Alÿs’s Rehearsal II, 2005
Francis Alÿs, Rehearsal II, PERFORMA05.
PERFORMA commissioned a live performance by the Belgian born, Mexico City-based artist Francis Alÿs in collaboration with Rafael Ortega.
Rehearsal II featured a stripper, pianist, and soprano.
The fluctuation between engagement and repose onstage curbs the expectation of a seamless performance, and, for Alÿs, Rehearsal II allegorically explored notions of promise and disappointment, as well as the avoidance of success.
A PERFORMA Commission. Made possible with additional support from Lucille, Ron Neeley and Stephanie French.
Read more about Francis Alÿs PERFORMA Commission on the PERFORMA05 website.