Emma Waltraud Howes moves between movement and form, from time-based performance installations to soft sculptures and sound experiments. In her transdisciplinary practice, influenced by dance, martial arts, performance theory and visual art, she directs her attention to gestural observations and speculative scores. Her dance scripts – graphic systems for the performers of her pieces – have an exceptionally precise aesthetic. In doing so, she creates space for complex reconfigurations of body and space, a kind of “serious play” that leads to “hyper-glitch” operas like “Cadavre Exquis” that celebrate failure and promote alternative perspectives. The exhibition “Manageable Matter” presents new glass sculptures and graphic scores that explore gravity and grace through variations of glass artichoke hearts. Evolving from medieval clubs to drumsticks and finally to elongated driftwood sticks, they symbolize an “Optimistic Incrementalism” – a strategy of trying, failing and constantly improving that reflects the close connection to the past.
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Cost of Sojourn: Survival and actions revealed in unspecific sites
Cost of Sojourn: Learned helplessness & Hidden works
London Design Festival 2023
Welcome to T/C Latvia : Latvian pavilion at Venice Biennale
James Lee Byars, 1932–1997
James Turrell - Aftershock
Hrair Sarkissian: The Other Side of Silence
Bruce Nauman. Neons Corridors Rooms
Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You
