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Reinvention / Reenactment / Recontextualisation / Rewriting / Living Archive / Inscription / Memory / History / Restaging / Actualisation / Rereading / Transcription For the 20th Biennale of Sydney, the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
will be transformed into the Embassy of Translation, bringing together a selection of works by artists that contextualise historical positions, concepts and artefacts, alongside contemporary concerns and working methods. Adam Linder
creates dance works for the theatre and for ‘Choreographic Services’, which can be hired by the hour and are not bound to one context. With this second format, Linder examines the necessity for choreography to be both ‘at work’ and publicly effective – problematising the institutional and economic aspects of performance in the process. The 20th Biennale of Sydney has hired the second of Linder’s Choreographic Services, where two dancers and an arts writer are commissioned to transform critical reflections on a given environment into choreographic embodiment. Taking place over five days in March in an interstitial space at the MCA, the context for Some Proximity
is at once public and institutional. Linder and a second dancer, Justin Kennedy, direct one another in a series of movements while reading aloud from a script composed by a writer, which describes and responds to the context within which they are all situated in near real-time. Linder and Kennedy speak and dance the text, the virtuosity of their gliding movements in sharp contrast with the critical tone of the written document, which acts as an impetus for the work and as a record. The gestures of Some Proximity
reflect on and are contained within the prescriptive conditions of its presentation, and its form, too, is shaped by the social architecture of the setting in which it takes place. Other artists featuring at the MCA Australia include: Nina Beier, Daniel Boyd, Noa Eshkol, Kazimir Malevich, Helen Marten, Shahryar Nashat and Dayanita Singh. Find
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