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glo and Paper-Cut-Project Collaboration

ARTIST STATEMENT

gestures that soon will disappear: FOURTH BODY constructs a hybrid form that experiments with new ways of performance inhabiting art spaces, and is a MOCA GA premiere, created by Lauri Stallings in collaboration with glo and Paper-Cut-Project. The exhibition is composed of assemblies of ephemera, sound, video, paper and human interaction deployed through performative forms such as migrating choirs, anthems, and moving sculptures, striving to rethink performance in museums as a creative experience for surprise response and shifting forms.

In dialogue with MOCA GA’s main galleries, the artist fills the museum and spiraling staircases with 4TH BODY, phase II of the work, originally a public work (ROMANTIC BODY, July 2014) that embodies the poles of Stallings practice: participation and choreographic. The work begins the moment people encounter it, and is presented continuously during the operating hours of the museum, persisting over time, to produce meaning and value through action, rather than objects.

creative team
Lauri Stallings, conceptual artist and choreographer; glo dancers Virgina Coleman, Mary Jane Pennington, Kristina Brown, Jennifer Clark; visual artist Maggie Smith, photographers Thom Baker and Joe Dreher; fashion designer Maggie Dinkins; sound design, Tanner Smith; dancers Anicka Austin, Mandy Mpezo, Ariel Hart, Kristin Woods, Nadya Zeitlin; Production Specialist Richard Carvlin.