'Rub Your Face Onto Your Shoulder' by Sunny Pfalzer
Immaterial Ecologies. A gathering to resynchronise land and body.
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04 – 06 Nov 2022
“Rub your face onto your shoulder” (2021) transforms the costumes of Sunny Pfalzers former Performance “Hold a Ghost” (2020) into curtains and pillows. This immersive installation is activated in a live performance in collaboration with the R’n’B musician Marshall Vincent and creates a hybrid of a listening meditation, poetry and a durational musical composition. In the streets the bodies were active, but after the adrenaline rush comes the need to lie down and rest. Sunnys textile sculptures share that experience with the visitor and create a soft ground to dwell and feel taken care of.
A set of installations integrating sound, sculpture, film and performance are presented together with a selection of works from the Collection of the Modern Art Centre to create an atmospheric setting through the buildings of the Gulbenkian Foundation and the Garden.
Works by Lourdes Castro and Mimosa Echard will be exhibited in the hall of the Headquarters Building; installations by Martín Llavaneras can be found in room 1 and in the garden; works by artist Sunny Pfalzer will be presented in room 2; and a video-installation by Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman will be presented in Auditorium 2.
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BIOGRAPHY
Sunny Pfalzer is a performance artist, a Surfer Boy, a Go-Go-Girl and a Slug. They love to cuddle on the street. Whether they perform on stage, sew textile sculptures, hold a camera, or choreograph for public spaces, their approach is always bodily and felt. Through protest methodologies, poetry and pop culture, Sunny depicts how body language can construct statements without words. Facilitating workshops and collaborating is an integral part of Sunny’s processes. Work ethics and friendship underlie Sunny’s practice. Recent presentations include, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Germany, Kunsthalle Wien, Shedhalle and Les Urbaines, Switzerland.
IMMATERIAL ECOLOGIES
«Immaterial Ecologies» programme includes conversations, concerts, performances, poetry sessions and other artistic practices that will reflect upon the immaterial and spiritual dimensions of ecology.
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