Contemporary dance and visual art presented simultaneously at Victoria Miro Gallery and Siobhan Davies Studios, London
This Spring, contemporary dance choreographer Siobhan Davies collaborates with leading London gallerist Victoria Miro to present The Collection. For three weeks, performers and artists present specially commissioned dance and artworks at Victoria Miro Gallery in North London and Siobhan Davies Studios in South London.
The Collection is a series of ambitious collaborations that look at the interfaces of contemporary art and dance, where these worlds intersect and how they might inform one another.
Victoria Miro Gallery premières a new work by Siobhan Davies created with Catherine Bennett, Matteo Fargion, Henry Montes, Deborah Saxon and Matthias Sperling. Performed continuously for six hours each day, the work is juxtaposed with Doldrum by the artist Anri Sala, which comprises a drum programmed to produce its own rhythm which in turn is taken from a piece previously performed by Siobhan Davies.
Showing in the other gallery spaces at Victoria Miro is a group exhibition of works that allude to movement, repetition or a physical engagement with space. New commissions, including Lying in Wait, a three-screen film installation by Idris Khan and Sarah Warsop, an outdoor sound piece by Susan Philipsz and film by Alex Hartley. Also on show are works by Francis Alÿs, Yayoi Kusama, Cildo Meireles, Roman Signer and Sarah Sze.
The architecturally impressive Roof Studio at Siobhan Davies Studios is usually occupied by dancers, but for the duration of The Collection it houses a new installation by Conrad Shawcross, Slow Arc Inside a Cube III. This work consists of a singular light source that is programmed to make random movements within a mesh cage, casting infinitely changing shadows across the Studio and creating limitless spatial distortions.
The Collection will evolve with a new collaboration with IKON Gallery in Birmingham from 24 September - 4 October and runs from Thursdays to Sundays.
Publication The Collection is accompanied by a fully illustrated publication with an essay by Rachel Withers.
Listings details: www.siobhandavies.com/thecollection 24 March - 9 April 2009 Times: 12-6pm Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, 3-9pm Thursday Admission free
Siobhan Davies Studios, 85 St George's Road, London SE1 6ER T: 44 (0)20 7091 9650 Nearest tube: Elephant & Castle, Lambeth North www.siobhandavies.com
Victoria Miro Gallery, 16 Wharf Road, London N1 7RW T: 44 (0)20 7336 8109 Nearest tube: Angel, Old Street www.victoria-miro.com
Further press information: For Siobhan Davies: Alison Wright alison@alisonwrightpr.com T: 44 (0)1608 811 474, M: 44 (0)7814 796 930 For Victoria Miro: Kathy Stephenson kathy@victoria-miro.com T: 44 (0)20 7549 0422
