Love the Daily Work
12 — 25 November 2018
- Curators
- Xavier Acarín and Trevor Carlson
- Venues
- Pavelló Mies van der Rohe
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LOOP Barcelona and the Mies van der Rohe Foundation join the Merce Cunningham Centennial Celebration with an exhibition of his video works at the Barcelona Pavilion. The selection will feature work that Cunningham made over forty years, developed in collaboration with artists such as John Cage, David Tudor, Robert Rauschenberg and Charles Atlas and testimony to their common interest in space and technology. Among the films presented is Assemblage, a recently re-released piece shot in 1968 in San Francisco. The exhibition also includes Cunningham classics like Merce by Merce by Paik, Westbeth and Channels/Inserts. Film and video offered Cunningham new ways to explore movement, as well as a different perspective on the anatomy of his dancers. Cunningham considered film one of the four events that led to large discoveries over his six-decade career as a choreographer.
The event on Saturday 17, 6.30pm with live music by BCN216 and Mikel Rouse
You can download and play Mikel Rouse music by following this link and using the password: eyeSpace1
Here you can read the curator text written by Xavier Acarín
Xavier Acarín
Xavier Acarín Wieland is a curator working at the intersection of art and social histories, with a special interest in performativity, process and situational practices. He holds a masters from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. And has curated projects for The New School for Social Research, Elastic City, Chez Bushwick, The Hessel Museum-CCS Bard, Peekskill Project 6, Java Projects, ESTE, and the Abrons Arts Center, where he was the 2016-17 Curator in Residence. He has also been in residency at HIAP, Helsinki (2016) and at La Ira de Dios, Buenos Aires (2018). In 2018 he was curator and panelist for the Miquel Casablancas Award, as part of a residency in collaboration between Sant Andreu Contemporani and Fabra i Coats in Barcelona.
He has written for exhibitions at Galería ADN, Barcelona, and Participant Inc., New York. His articles, essays, and interviews have been published at A-Desk (2007-present), Culturas-La Vanguardia, Esnorquel, Terremoto, and BRAC (University of Barcelona). He has participated as author of the books Designing Experience (Bloomsbury, 2014), and Dear Helen (CCS Bard, 2014).
Trevor Carlson
Trevor has proven himself as a global visionary leader within the field of arts management and
throughout his over twenty-year career has guided numerous artists in achieving their
endeavors, most notably the dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham. In the final years
of Merce Cunningham’s life and artistic career, Trevor served as Executive Director of the
Cunningham Dance Foundation during which time he initiated the creation of the Legacy Plan, a
precedent-setting strategic planning initiative to confront, in accordance with the artist’s wishes,
the organization’s transition to a post-founder existence. As realized, the Legacy Plan included
an 8-million-dollar fundraising campaign to support the Company in a two-year farewell world
tour, technology-driven preservation initiatives, and career transition packages for all artists and
staff.
