Saturday, August 22nd

7:30 pm

"futureLover"

A Live Performance By Ben Evans

An exploration of a modern man : fragile, vulgar, nostalgic. It is a dance of objects and memory, confession and solitude…events in search of masculine codes that are rarely found. Make your own. DIY.

Artist Statement

My work situates itself between performance and installation - “performance” because it is not easily defined as theater nor simply labeled as dance; “installation” because there often exists a direct rapport with the space in which I perform (oftentimes a non-theatrical venue) and the architecture and objects therein.  Collaborative by nature, I seek to work alongside other artists, and am deeply influenced by other mediums, notably architecture, sculpture, and photography.  A recurrent theme in my work is a search for the incorporation and co-operation of these mediums.  The process of making work fascinates me, and so the personal experience of being in this process often finds its way into the performance itself.  While I don’t always focus on identity as a theme, inevitably the work is often emotional and tends to reflect a certain sense of self, and a quiet experience of the live moment.

Biography

Ben Evans makes performance in the U.S. and France, where he currently resides. His last project, je t’aimerai toujours, took place in his apartment in Paris every month for eight months. His work with madhause in the U.S. has been seen in Boulder, Chicago, and Los Angeles. He completed the Laboratory of Movement Studies at the Jacques Lecoq School, and has worked and studied with Goat Island, Anne Bogart and the SITI Company, Moving Theater, dreamthinkspeak (Barbican, London), Mary Overlie and Terry O’Riley, and Ettumanoor P. Kannan (Kerala, India). He graduated from Yale University, and is currently pursuing a Masters in Performance Practice at Paris VIII. He will be working with Deborah Hay as part of the Solo Commissioning Performance Project in the fall of 2009.

LOCATION:

Chez Bushwick
304 Boerum St., Buzzer #11
(Between Bogart and White)
Brooklyn, NY 11206

ADMISSION:

General: $10

•Two For One With A Friend•

Students: $5

Seniors: $5

RSVP:

info@chezbushwick.net