Konschthal Esch - Caecilia Tripp (Liquid Earth performance)

Georges Maikel Pires Monteiro, the dancer-actor in the "Liquid Earth" video presents a live performance on the Konschthal site, in resonance with the presentation of Caecilia Tripp's work.
Caecilia Tripp's Liquid Earth work develops with time capsules in space, with ZOME and its founder Theodore Wohng, along with his spatial collaborator Jonathan Nguyen.
During her artist residency in Bourglinster from January to March 2018, Caecilia Tripp focussed her attention on a very special part of the Grand Duchy: the "Minett" Terres Rouges. In an artistic approach that references the writings of Edouard Glissant (1928-2011) and others, Caecilia Tripp associates the images of an erupting volcano with those of a contemporary dance choreography. Glissant considered the landscape as an active "character" in History. For the author from Martinique, landscape constituted an active, not a passive, element. And this active identity of the landscape can be felt in both the images and the soundtrack of the "Liquid Earth" video. The sound of rhythmic breathing is associated with the sounds of the eruptions of the Nyiragongo volcano, located in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
It is important in this context to specify that the dancer in the "Liquid Earth" video is none other than Georges Maikel Pires Monteiro, born in Luxembourg to Cape Verdean parents. His performance also references the work of iron and steel workers notably his costume, which is that of the emblematic "Feierstëppler". This association of the volcanic magma and a symbolic approach to the industrial past of the region makes "Liquid Earth" a work that produces an original view of an historical context, but also a socio-cultural reality of today. We have to bear in mind that the "Brill" district in Esch, in which the Konschthal is situated, is a nerve centre for the Cape Verdean community in Luxembourg.
Caecilia Tripp's work has been presented in such places as MOMA/PS1, New York, USA, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris, De Appel in Amsterdam, the Museum of Modern Art in Moscow, the Dakar Biennale, the Clark House Initiative, Bombay, India, the Center Of Contemporary Arts, New Orleans, USA, the Zacheta Gallery Warsaw, Poland, the Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA, the Bronx Museum, New York, USA, in the Centre d'Art Contemporain in Ivry, Le Credac, Yvry-sur-Seine and recently at the Sharjah Biennale 14, at the Toronto Biennale together with Art Gallery of York University (AGYU) Toronto, Canada.
Liquid Earth exhibition is expanding into space As Time Capsules in collaboration with ZOME (AR) its founder Theodore Wohng and the Melbourne based space curator Jonathan Nguyen.
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