Old Gold Exhibitions and Events
2022 N Humboldt Blvd
South Entrance, Basement
773.653.9956
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Selina Trepp
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Nov 21, 2008 – Dec 21, 2008
Fridays
Sundays (1–4pm)
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Selina Trepp invited dancer Ayako Kato to respond to Tina Turner's plaintive ballad "Private Dancer" for her latest collaboration. In Old Gold's basement gallery, a video of Kato's performance is projected onto a broken disco ball spinning on the floor, which sends elusive image fragments swirling around the darkened room. At heart a reflection on power dynamics, the project's effect grows in the empty, weathered space, producing a tender, haunted feeling of diffused life. Kato dances to the song in her head and a hushed silence prevails, broken only by the sound of shuffling feet. Meanwhile, surrounded by a mirrorball explosion, we're nudged to find the one crouched position where we may glimpse the dancer's body as a whole.
