The first one was falling in and out of love, and the second one was the passage of time, and both were really amazing conversations. This is a first tryout.ĭANCER: I'm going to join the group again.ĭAVID O'SHEA: The visitor feels also somehow have to give in something from them because they feel like this generosity, but also what I found interesting is that this nudity, that they have - they allow themselves also to be in a certain way nude in what they can exchange with the performer in this discussion. So today we have three questions which was, "How is ageing for you?", "How is growing for you? "How is falling in love or falling out of love for you?" And we will have other questions along the process. XAVIER LE ROY: The conversation is triggered by questions, so he we have a set of questions we try now. In this work, it is a new way to experience choreography, dance and performance. Normally you would engage with a piece of contemporary art in sitting in a dark theatre. LISA HAVILAH, DIRECTOR, CARRIAGEWORKS: You don't read it as a piece of contemporary arts, you can read it in any way and what it does is actually brings the content or the ideas in the work to the fore. It also kind of like interests me how for something that isn't quite choreographed, that all the performers kind of feed off each other and if anyone puts their arms or legs up, everyone starts to do it as well. It's part of showing the body.ĪNGELA YU, SCULPTURE STUDENT: And the body is just like in a static position it kind of reminds me of how beautiful the human body is. Nudity has been part of art for thousands of years, from Egyptians to Greeks, to Romans, to paintings of the renaissance, to impressionists, to right through.
It's very sculptural, it's hard to describe. I love it when they get together like that. Xavier is credited as being the first artist who took dance movement into museums, into galleries. JOHN KALDOR, KALDOR PUBLIC ART PROJECTS: What I admire about Zavier is that he is breaking down the barriers between dance, movement, performance and visual arts. If you say it is a performance, there is an expectation of when does it start, "Ah, I'm too late," and such things. I call it exhibition in order to point out a form where the public is invited to come whenever they want and leave whenever they want, so the work addresses something that is not asking for a beginning and an end. Here what we do is try to make a situation where you have to step in the landscape, so there is this notion of something unfolding in front of you where the form is transforming, like a landscape would do, like not with a narrative that with an aim to go somewhere, but it just unfolds.
XAVIER LE ROY, CHOREOGRAPHER/ARTIST: The purpose of the piece is to produce a situation where we do actions that unfold and transform, one into the other, and they are conceived like landscape.
David O'Shea went along to the undressed rehearsal, and a warning, as you might expect, this story does contain quite a bit of nudity. The Australian art philanthropist John Kaldor and the Carriageworks art space in Sydney have commissioned the exhibition. It involves 18 nude performers interacting with a fully clothed public. It is the latest work of a former French molecular biologist-turned-choreographer and artist Xavier Le Roy. Now a new exhibition is taking the naked form to a whole new level. EMMA ALBERICI, PRESENTER: The nude has been a staple of art for centuries.
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