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Amanda
Lorens
Saturday
19 August
Tango In Transit
“ The tango embrace is dangerously close”
Amanda Lorens combines sound installation and live tango dancing, creating
a private peep show in the back of a transit van. The dancers are hidden
behind closed doors. Sounds and voices can be heard, but only through
small peep holes can we get a sense of the intimacy and sensuality of
there world within this intense and confined space.
Amanda Lorens deconstructs the tango and uses it as an experimental investigation
in to physical and emotional experience through none verbal communication.
Tango In Transit follows on from Tango Privado, an event for
Provisional Newlyn at Newlyn Art Gallery, April 2006, and is part of Amanda’s
ongoing interest in exploring tango in her work. She intends to keep the
work experimental and fluid in nature, allowing for unforeseen outcomes
and responses.
Her current work incorporates video, sound, installation and live art.
She has exhibited nationally and internationally making work for both
gallery and site-specific locations. She was a founding member of PALP
(Penwith Artist led Projects) co-curating and presenting site related
art in unusual and temporary locations.
In-transit is a mobile arts space that takes art out of the gallery and
onto the road. Presenting art a transit box van, the aim of In-transit
is to make contemporary visual art accessible to new audiences. It also
provides an inspiring space for artists to exhibit beyond a gallery context.
In-transit creates an exciting and balanced programme of exhibitions and
events that involve interaction and collaboration between community and
artists.
www.art-in-transit.co.uk
Tango Privado, Provisional Newlyn, Newlyn Art Gallery, April 2006
The tango is a dance that evolved in the brothels of Buenos Ares, in Argentina. Slow and intimate, it is undeniably erotic, and has been taken up all over the world. Amanda Lorens, herself an avid fan, invited friends and associates met through dancing to contribute to a piece called ‘Tango in transit’ that celebrated the dance, and helped outsiders gain a glimpse of the exhilaration that it can provide.
Inside a white transit van two dancers danced with each other to the sound of music. The audience was able to view them through small peep-holes drilled in the rear end wall of the van, but the dancers would not have been aware of them looking. Headphones were available to wear, and these provided an audio commentary on the experience of dancing, which were supplemented by a similar sound piece in the cabin of the van. This was an intriguing collage of descriptions by the dancers of their enthusiasm for dancing.
The work was vibrant, exotic and surreal situated as it was in a van on the sea-front, and it seemed to work on a number of levels. In particular there seemed to be an exploration of the boundaries of the body and how these can be and are extended: in this case through dance and vehicular travel. It also seemed to question the authenticity of cultural forms and national boundaries, and the extent to which these can be redrawn and reapplied in different contexts.
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