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COMPANY
/ Anita Ponton (London,
UK)
LOCATION: Art Gallery of
Calgary
April 13 / 2003
7:30 PM
UK-based visual artist Anita Ponton’s work is interdisciplinary, combining installation, sound and film. Her work references film or theatre in both the visual component and also in the conceptual framework. Often her performances are self-described “anxious affairs” as she pushes boundaries in her explorations of form and character.
Combining video, dance and live performance, Anita Ponton’s Company examines versions of the female, portraying hysteria and mimicry of the self. The physical and virtual are used as counterpoints in a performance that will prove both unsettling and thought-provoking.
SEEN.UNSAID
/ Anita Ponton (London,
UK)
LOCATION: CSIF
April 15 / 2003
7:30 PM
Employing dramatic
re-enactment of spliced dialogue from classic films, Ponton’s performance
Seen. Unsaid. veers to the edge of hysteria and back again. The performance
is a tour de force blending aspects of personality with the highs and lows
of emotional distance brought to life through Ponton’s physical presence.
Anita Ponton is a visual artist currently specializing in performance work, sound and film. Based in London, her work has been shown widely in Europe, Scandinavia, Canada and the US. Ponton is currently undertaking doctoral research into the relationship of the live body in performance to cyberspace. Ponton also curates art events, as an individual and with hydra, an artist led group that devises performative events and exhibitions, often in alternative spaces, to provide a platform for experimental & cutting edge work.
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