UBS Openings: Live The Living Currency
26 - 27 Jan 08
Tate Modern, Turbine Hall Bridge
La monnaie vivante (The Living Currency) is a two-day exhibition that sets historical and more recent approaches to the body as a focus of performance in the visual arts in dialogue with the latest developments in contemporary dance.
This approach might be characterised as desire to investigate choreography in a sculptural way as arrested motion; a kind of degree zero of dance practice.
The works of the featured artists, including Franz Erhard Walther, Santiago Sierra, David Lamelas or Prinz Gholam, act on the physiological and sensual presence of the live body.
Occurring within the public space of the museum and set in relation to each other, these performances situate actions in a physical and political space, producing gestures and signs that inflect the collective, cultural environment.
United by the title La monnaie vivante 1970, taken from Pierre Klossowski's philosophical and poetical essay on the body as part of an alternative economy of value, this exhibition places Klossowski’s text as the theoretical horizon of the works, redistributing perceived limits of the body in space.
A talk about Klossowski's essay, featuring speakers Sarah Wilson and Martin McGeown takes place in the Starr Auditorium on Saturday 26 January from 17.00-18.30.
La monnaie vivante is curated by Pierre Bal-Blanc, director of the CAC Brétigny, France, in collaboration with Tate Modern.
Previous versions of the ongoing project were presented in 2006 in Studio Micadanses in Paris and in November 2007 at STUK in Leuven (Belgium).
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