Kellie O’Dempsey & Jennifer Wroblewski “Resistance Movement”
Kentler International Drawing Space
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Kentler International Drawing Space presents Resistance Movement, a collaborative exhibition by Kellie O’Dempsey and Jennifer Wroblewski.
Resistance Movement is a performance-based drawing installation by artists whose partnership spans two continents (Wroblewski is based in the U.S. and O’Dempsey in Australia). Large-scale drawings, projected onto paper, tulle, and the gallery walls, will document two performances scheduled throughout the duration of the exhibition. The artists will respond to one another’s movements, the music of live performers, and the audience with multi-disciplinary tools including pencils, brushes, animation, digital devices, sound and light design. The changing images on view will convey and build upon the dynamism of the performances.
Originally conceived as dance-based project called Discotheque, the work assumed a more political tone in response to the recent U.S. presidential election. The current iteration, Resistance Movement, explores themes of communication, transcendence, alliance and solidarity. The title refers not only to group protest, but to the mechanics of drawing itself. Here O’Dempsey and Wroblewski use the immediacy of drawing and performance to mediate the intimate and shared experiences of time and place.
A brochure with an essay by Charlotta Kotik accompanies the exhibition.
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Schedule
from January 15, 2017 to February 19, 2017
Performance, Saturday, January 28, 4pm with musical guest Maniac E.M.P.I.R.E