Sensing the Future: LIVE
Getty Museum
October 5 & 6, 2024
Part of PST ART: Art & Science Collide
This afternoon of live performance reimagined works central to the legacy of Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), a non-profit organization founded in 1966 that paired artists from New York’s avant-garde with the innovative engineers at Bell Laboratories—a groundbreaking venture celebrated in the archival exhibition Sensing the Future. Included was a reimagining of Deborah Hay’s solo (1966) as Solo Two (2024). Tailored to the Getty’s environment, the performance included an ensemble of dancers performing with remote-controlled vehicles. Hay’s new realization of this piece deviates from, yet remains indelibly linked to, the archive.
Images (c) 2024 Getty Trust.
Sensing the Future: LIVE
Getty Museum
October 5 & 6, 2024
Part of PST ART: Art & Science Collide
This afternoon of live performance reimagined works central to the legacy of Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), a non-profit organization founded in 1966 that paired artists from New York’s avant-garde with the innovative engineers at Bell Laboratories—a groundbreaking venture celebrated in the archival exhibition Sensing the Future. Included was a reimagining of Deborah Hay’s solo (1966) as Solo Two (2024). Tailored to the Getty’s environment, the performance included an ensemble of dancers performing with remote-controlled vehicles. Hay’s new realization of this piece deviates from, yet remains indelibly linked to, the archive.
Images (c) 2024 Getty Trust.
July 13 & 14, 2024
Getty Museum
Groundbreaking artist Joan Jonas has created multidisciplinary works since the 1960s that investigate perception through radical uses of video, sculpture, installation, drawing, and performance. For this rare presentation of her iconic performance work Mirror Piece, first held in 1969, the artist revisited her original notes to update and reconstruct it as Mirror Piece I & II (1969/2024). Fifteen dancers will traverse Getty’s Tram Arrival Plaza while manipulating mirrors in synchronized choreography. By reflecting their surroundings, the mirrors blur the boundaries between performers and audience and become a means for challenging forms of representation and hierarchies of gender.
As Jonas recalls, "The mirror was a metaphor for me. A device to alter the image and to include the audience as reflection, making them uneasy as they view themselves in public." Mirror Piece I & II (1969/2024) is performed by a cast gathered from across Los Angeles’ dance and experimental performance communities, led by Joan Jonas Studio and movement director Nefeli Skarmea.
Mirror Piece I & II (1969/2024) is presented as part of Getty Museum's Ever Present performance series.
Photos by Jennifer Buonocore-Nedrelow.
Off the 405 - 2024 Season
June-August
Getty Museum
Hailu Mergia / Slauson Malone 1 / Helado Negro / Julia Holter / WOODS
SPELLLING / Makaya McCraven / Etran de L’Aïr / Rahill / Alabaster DePlume
May - August
Getty Center
