WORKS
Immense Joy
“Immense Joy” is a new and original work conceived, directed and performed by Anna Kohler, in collaboration with performers Natalia de Campos, John Hagan. Fabio Tavares, Justin Gordon and Associate Director Caleb Hammond . It is inspired by the writing of Brazilian author and femme fatale Clarice Lispector, a woman whose deep understanding of human nature and ahead-of-our-times writing is filled with both intense, quirky humor and profound sadness.
photos: Theo Cote
MYTHO?/Lure of Wildness
with Hapy Phace
Set in a famous painter’s studio, the models who inhabit this luscious bohemia become archetypes for all women, who become social pariahs merely for aging. Kohler, who was herself an artist’s model at La Grande Chaumière, the oldest painting academy in Paris, drew on personal experience to conjure her vision. However, as the word “mytho”—which means tall tales, or a person prone to fantasy and exaggeration—implies, this multisensory production also immerses the audience in fictional flights of fancy. Mytho? is punctuated with references to Bresson films, Matisse paintings and the Mediterranean world of such artists.
photos: Paula Court
Nudity removed from these excerpts
Ask me, I'm Still Here
Ask Me, I’m Still Here, Part II, a video installation and live performance by Anna Kohler and Joan Jonas (Professor Emerita, MIT). Their conversation took the shape of a storytelling game, which began as a hybrid of pre-recorded video in Joan Jonas’s New York studio and live spoken word by Anna Kohler. When the real Joan Jonas took the stage, replacing her video surrogate, she and Anna Kohler shared jokes, memories and anecdotes of Jack Smith, Spalding Gray, the Wooster Group and the East Village in its heyday of performance art, using terms from “The Dictionary of Winds,” as prompts. These paper fragments were then clipped to a clothesline at the front of the stage. In this novel interview format, Joan Jonas cued videos of her past works to illustrate stories about their creation.
photos: Jake Gunter
Cara
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photos: Nancy Campbell
D'arc-ness
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photos: Paula Court