{"id":7706,"date":"2014-08-18T16:37:10","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T14:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/?p=7706"},"modified":"2014-09-22T15:27:15","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T13:27:15","slug":"experiencing-a-gallery-performance-by-yvonne-rainer-and-the-endless-possibilities-of-minimalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/08\/18\/experiencing-a-gallery-performance-by-yvonne-rainer-and-the-endless-possibilities-of-minimalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Living a gallery performance by Yvonne Rainer and the endless possibilities of minimal art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-7706 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/08\/18\/experiencing-a-gallery-performance-by-yvonne-rainer-and-the-endless-possibilities-of-minimalism\/yvonne-rainer_10\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Yvonne-Rainer_10-480x320.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7712\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7712'>\n\t\t\t\tYvonne Rainer, Chair Pillow, 1969. Dancers in training with Pat Catterson and\nYvonne Rainer, July 2014. Photo: Eva Herzog.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/08\/18\/experiencing-a-gallery-performance-by-yvonne-rainer-and-the-endless-possibilities-of-minimalism\/yvonne-rainer_9\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Yvonne-Rainer_9-480x320.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7708\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7708'>\n\t\t\t\tYvonne Rainer, Talking Solo (part of Terrain), 1963. Dancers in training with Pat Catterson and\nYvonne Rainer, July 2014. Photo: Eva Herzog.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/08\/18\/experiencing-a-gallery-performance-by-yvonne-rainer-and-the-endless-possibilities-of-minimalism\/yvonne-rainer_13\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"118\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Yvonne-Rainer_13-377x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7709\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7709'>\n\t\t\t\tYvonne Rainer, Parts of the Body, late 1960s. Instructions for a class. Photo: Marcus J. Leith.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/08\/18\/experiencing-a-gallery-performance-by-yvonne-rainer-and-the-endless-possibilities-of-minimalism\/yvonne-rainer_22\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"111\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Yvonne-Rainer_22-354x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7710\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7710'>\n\t\t\t\tYvonne Rainer, Poster advertising This is the story of a woman\nwho\u2026, 1972\u201373. Performed by Yvonne Rainer and John Erdman, Festival d\u2019Automne, Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art Moderne de\nla Ville de Paris, 1972. Photo: Marcus J. Leith.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/08\/18\/experiencing-a-gallery-performance-by-yvonne-rainer-and-the-endless-possibilities-of-minimalism\/yvonne-rainer_3\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Yvonne-Rainer_3-480x320.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7707\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7707'>\n\t\t\t\tYvonne Rainer, Diagonal (part of Terrain), 1963. Dancers in training with Pat Catterson and Yvonne Rainer, July 2014. Photo: Eva Herzog.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/08\/18\/experiencing-a-gallery-performance-by-yvonne-rainer-and-the-endless-possibilities-of-minimalism\/yvonne-rainer_19\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"123\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Yvonne-Rainer_19-394x480.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7711\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7711'>\n\t\t\t\tExhibition view, Yvonne Rainer: Dance Works, Raven Row, 2014. Photo: Marcus J. Leith.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">Have you experienced that feeling, when leaving the cinema, that the real world you re-enter is tainted by the imaginary, virtual world you have been engrossed in for the past couple of hours? This was an experience created, intentionally or not, by attending a recent performance of four of Yvonne Rainer\u2019s dances at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravenrow.org\/exhibition\/yvonne_rainer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raven Row<\/a> in London. The performances, a 45-minute dance programme, presented four times daily, was accompanied by an exhibition of theoretical writings, drawings, scores and film\/video recordings from Rainer\u2019s long career.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">The visual arts and interdisciplinary nature of Rainer\u2019s oeuvre was particularly felt in watching \u2018Diagonal\u2019 (1963) the first of the four dances performed live. The choreography presented a spectacle that was at times exhausting to imagine doing oneself, comical (but not slap-stick) and combined pre-formulated movements with chance-related configurations based on the performers\u2019 spur of the moment decisions. The choreographic planning of Rainer\u2019s genius and the physical and mimetic skills of the young performers held this apparent randomness together formally. \u2018Diagonal\u2019, performed in an almost square rectangular space, could be experienced to reference the making of a painting or drawing, whereby the fine artist will inevitably revert to a body language of gestures, despite the inclusion of chance decisions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">The accompanying display of choreographic drawings and film material, curated by Catherine Wood from Tate Modern, confirmed the broad output of Rainer\u2019s multiple interests and talents. This substantial archive from the 1960s confirmed the burgeoning interdisciplinary nature of contemporary dance and art at the time and heralded a blurring of the lines of definition between disciplines. A great spirit of freedom of expression, that might be taken for granted by contemporary artists today, brought the performative nature of all visual and auditory art forms into focus.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">Not restricted to the domain of the art gallery or theatre, the recognition of how we all move through space in our everyday surroundings was made more acute on leaving Raven Row after the live performances. Art and \u2018real life\u2019 really are one and the same experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you experienced that feeling, when leaving the cinema, that the real world you re-enter is tainted by the imaginary, virtual world you have been engrossed in for the past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1796],"tags":[1782],"class_list":["post-7706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mapping-the-artscape","tag-yvonne-rainer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}