Jim Allen: Contact 2011 Exhibition

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Where: Artspace, 300 K' Rd, Newton Show map

Restrictions: All Ages

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Admission: Free

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In 1974 Jim Allen, commissioned by the Auckland Festival (the first festival in Australasia which ran from 1948 until 1982 and which was the earlier incarnation of what is now the Auckland Arts Festival) presented the performance Contact at the Auckland Art Gallery. Famed for its dramatic focus on live action rather than the static object, Contact is acknowledged as a seminal work in the development of new, radical art forms in this country.

In 2011 Contact will be infused with new life as it is re-performed at Artspace. The piece speaks about a release from social alienation through collective activity – literally ‘making contact’. Its three elements – Computer Dance, Parangole Capes and Body Articulation/Imprint – deploy formal structures in which the interplay of bodies use movement, form, sound and light to strive for transcendence.

Photo: Bryony Dalefield, courtesy Michael Lett.