Encounter & Discuss Taipei Biennial 2016: Xavier Le Roy, Scarlet Yu and Corinne Diserens on “Retrospective”
Date: Saturday May 14, 2016
Time: 6:30 – 8PM (Check in starts at 6PM)
Venue: Library, Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Registration is full.
Centered on different practices of thought, the invention of discursive and performative apparatuses, and the production of images or models, Corinne Diserens’s project for the Taipei Biennial 2016 will explore the main curatorial theme of ‘Gestures and Archives of the Present, Genealogies of the Future’, enabling a constellation of artistic propositions resonating with such subjects as: performing the archives, performing the architecture, performing the retrospective – to name a few.
For this event, Diserens invites French choreographer Xavier Le Roy and Hong Kong-born dancer Scarlet Yu to discuss Le Roy’s work “Retrospective.”
About Retrospective
Retrospective is a work that Xavier Le Roy has made at the invitation of Laurence Rassel commissioned by Fundació Antoni Tàpies Barcelona in 2012. Since then, there has been several editions such as Dancing Museum – Rennes, Salvador de Bahia, Museu de Arte do Rio(MAR) – Brazil, DeichtorHallen – Hamburg, Centre Pompidou – Paris, TheaterWorks – Singapore, MoMAPS1 – NYC and Beirut Art Center – Lebanon.
Retrospective is an exhibition conceived as a choreography of actions that will be carried out by performers for the duration of the exhibition. These actions will compose situations that inquire into various experiences about how we use, consume or produce time. This exhibition employs retrospective as a mode of production rather than aiming to show the development of an artist’s work over a period of time. It seeks to recast the material from the solo choreographies in situations with live actions, where the apparatuses of the theater performance and the museum exhibition intersect.
Based on solo works by Xavier Le Roy created between 1994 and 2010, the work unfolds in three time axes: the duration of the visit composed by each visitor, the daily basis of labor time of the performers and the time of the growth of a new composition during the length of the exhibition.
About Xavier Le Roy
Xavier Le Roy holds a doctorate in molecular biology from the University of Montpellier, France, and has worked as a dancer and choreographer since 1991. He has performed with diverse companies and choreographers. From 1996 to 2003, he was artist-in-residence at the Podewil in Berlin. In 2007-2008 he was “Associated Artist” at Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier, France. In 2010 Le Roy is an Artist in Residence fellow at the MIT Program in Art Culture and Technology (Cambridge, MA). In 2012, he begins a 3 years residency at Théâtre de la Cité Internationale, Paris. Through his solo works such as “Self Unfinished (1998)” and “Product of Circumstances (1999)”, he has opened new perspectives in the field of choreographic art.
His latest works such as the solo Le Sacre du Printemps (2007), Untitled (2014), the group piece low pieces (2011), and works for exhibition spaces such as production (2011) created together with Mårten Spångberg, untitled (2012) for the exhibition 12 Rooms, Retrospective first realized in 2012 at the Tapiès Foundation-Barcelona, Temporary title (2015) created at Sydney in the frame of John Kaldor Public Art Project or For The Unfaithful Replica at CA2M Madrid produce situations that explore the relationships between spectators/visitors/performers and the production of subjectivities.
About Scarlet Yu
Scarlet Yu is Hong Kong-born dance-artist, living in Berlin and Paris. She graduated at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (Master in Fine Art of Dance) 2015. Worked as Rehearsal Director and performer at The Arts Fission Company from 2000 until 2010. Her works focus on the transformative potential of autobiographical material in choreography, work such as The Act of Memory, One WITH One (2012), The Act of Passing (2015), Read MEmory (2015). Worked with Haris Pasovic (Bonsia), Teatro de los sentidos (Spain), Maurice Lai (Hong Kong) and Xavier Le Roy. She gains support from Hong Kong Arts Development Council and Arts Network Asia and one of the contributor and translator for Hong Kong Dance Journal.
About Corinne Diserens
Corinne Diserens currently serves as director of the erg, higher art and research academy in Brussels, Belgium. She has served as director and chief curator at the Museion in Bolzano, Italy (2007-2008), Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nantes, France (2003-2006), Les Musées de Marseille in Marseille, France (1996-1999), and as curator at IVAM in Valencia, Spain (1989-1993), and was art director at the 1993 Tyne International biennial sponsored by the Arts Council of Great Britain. She curated the French national representative at the 2002 Biennale de São Paulo and the Triana International Contemporary Art Biennial (T.I.C.A.B.) in 2009. In 2004, she was honored by the Dutch International Association of Art Critics (AICA) for the Best Exhibition project in the Netherlands over the period of 2001 to 2003, as curator of the Dan Graham: Works, 1965-2000.