DANCE FOR NOTHING (REVISITED), 2024
KEEPING TALE OF CURRENT TIMES | JEAN-LUC GODARD - VISUAL WORK
by Eszter Salamon
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DANCE FOR NOTHING (revisited), 2024
by Eszter Salamon
Choreographer and filmmaker Eszter Salamon revisits John Cage’s Lecture on Nothing (1949), a piece she initially engaged with in 2010 through her solo performance Dance for Nothing, which paired Cage’s words with her movement. This time, Salamon experiments with the modulation of physical movements, focusing on the sonic aspect of this seminal lecture on nothingness, void, and composition. She adds depth by listening to one of her past performances in which she repeated the text after a slowed-down recording by the American cellist and composer Frances-Marie Uitti, creating an auditory exploration of transmission and transformation.
Salamon’s fusion of body, voice, and score sets the framework for a meditation on the simultaneity of movement and sound, and on interpretation
Concept and Performance: Eszter Salamon
Music: John Cage
Production: Botschaft GbR/ Alexandra Wellensiek, Studio ES/ Elodie Perrin, Institute of Speculative Narration and Embodiment
Thanks to: Grazer Kunstverein (AT), Tom Engels, Lilou Vidal
The performance is followed by a discussion with the artist Eszter Salamon and Tom Engels, artistic director of Grazer Kunstverein (Graz/Austrian) and is part of the programme of the exhibition Keeping tale of current times | Jean-Luc Godard – Visual work.
Support:
Institut Français de Paris e MaisFRANÇA
MaisFRANÇA is the programme for contemporary French creation in Portugal.
It is supported by the Institut Français of Paris and the following patrons: Claude & Sofia Marion Foundation and BNP Paribas.
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Eszter Salamon is a choreographer, filmmaker, artist and performer living between Berlin, Paris and Budapest. Salamon uses choreography as an activating and organising agency between various media such as image, sound, music, text, voice, bodily movement and actions. Since 2001, she has created solos and large scale performances, performative installations, and films that have been presented in performing arts venues and museums internationally, including Centre Pompidou Paris, MoMA in New York City, Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Serralves Foundation in Porto, Akademie der Künste Berlin, mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Kunstinstituut Melly in Rotterdam, Museo Centro Gaiás in Santiago de Compostela, Fondation Cartier in Paris, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Villa Empain – Boghossian Foundation in Brussels, ING Art Center Brussels, and KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin. Her exhibition Eszter Salamon 1949 (2014) was presented at Jeu de Paume in Paris as part of Satellite, curated by Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez. In 2022, her performative installation Study for the Valeska Gert Pavilion was presented at the 16th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art. Her most recent film Sommerspiele (2023) premiered at Akademie der Künste in Berlin and was presented during Hors Pistes 2024 at Centre Pompidou.
