April 26, 2010 - June 18, 2010
(The exhibit will be open to the public from 9 am to 10 PM, Monday thru Sunday; the gallery will be attended Tuesday thru Saturday from 12 to 6 PM or, by appointment.)
| April 25 - June 18 | 2nd the Motion/1st the Idea - Bill Shannon: 3 Month Residency at DNA
(Performance, site-specific installations and workshops) |
April 26 6-8 pm | Opening of spatiotemporality, a solo exhibit by Bill Shannon;
Douz and Mille @ DNA (through June 18)
With essay by: Laura Roulet |
May 25 8 pm | Evolution of the Shannon Technique - Performance/Lecture by Bill Shannon
Includes admission to fundraiser after-party with cash bar |
May 24-28 2-4 pm | Step Fenz (Guest Crew workshops) Hip-Hop/House/Breakin |
June 2, 3, 4 4:30 pm | Traffic Bill Shannon's transient-specific street performance from
Shannon Public Works Trilogy:Window Bench Traffic |
June 4 9 pm til late nite | Traffic closing party and celebration |
June 18 | Exhibition closes |
New York, NY - April, 2010 DOUZ AND MILLE is proud to announce Bill Shannon's solo exhibition SPATIOTEMPORALITY at DANCE NEW AMSTERDAM (DNA) in New York.
On this occasion DOUZ AND MILLE collaborates with DNA and the LMCC on a three month multi-disciplinary, multi-media exploration on performance authenticity, street performance and the ongoing fusion of art and performance forms.
Bill Shannon's performance style is a unique technique combining streetdance, skateboarding and hip-hop. With his subversive videos and performance, he challenges social assumptions and stereotypes. Alternating between graceful swoops and comic pratfalls, he brings characteristics of street performance, such as intimacy between performer and audience, improvisation, and unexpected, chance encounters to a gallery setting. Ultimately his work recognizes that art intervention into the urban landscape, both architectural and social space, is a political act.
The solo exhibit SPATIOTEMPORALITY includes two multi-channel video installations: BENCH and The Evolution of William Foster Shannon. In them Shannon explores the reframing of performance artifact as cultural critique and the use of metaphor and iconography to comment on that which is otherwise unspeakable. Obsessed by equilibrium, symmetries and hierarchy, his art is a systematic exploration of interrelated modalities following processes through analog and digital realms without subordinating one to the fetishism of the other.
Under the sponsorship of the LMMC, TRAFFIC, part three of Bill Shannon Public Works, will debut in New York on June (sites and dates to be announced). D&M's concurrent presentation of BENCH at the DNA Gallery will offer, for the first time, an opportunity for the public to experience, simultaneously, two works of the artist's Trilogy: SHANNON PUBLIC WORKS : WINDOW BENCH TRAFFIC.
This comprehensive program continues DNA's new methodology of exploring dance through multiple artistic lenses in order to understand its relationship to culture and community-building; and offers an ideal platform for D&M's program to present contemporary art, in context.
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