Alex Baczynski-Jenkins at Chisenhale Gallery

Gaia Art Foundation is pleased to support Alex Baczynski-Jenkins’ The tremble, the symptom, the swell and the hole together at Chisenhale Gallery, a new body of work and his largest commission to date. For this ambitious new project, the London and Warsaw-based artist presents a choreography that unfolds across the duration of the exhibition, examining the relationships between affection, distraction, desire and loss. Performed by Baczynski-Jenkins’ collaborators and presented within a minimal and adaptive set, the choreography incorporates two interwoven temporal formats: fortnightly ‘Episodes’ on Thursday evenings, followed by extended ‘Fugue’ performances every Friday to Sunday, 2-6pm.

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The work traces queer affinities across social practices, art forms and timeframes, in which bodies simultaneously experience pleasure and deficit. Here, dance, gesture, sound and spoken word contribute to an embodied vocabulary through which the performers navigate intimate and fragmentary exchanges, reflecting on the edges of subjectivity, corporeality and representation. During the days that the gallery is closed to the public, Baczynski-Jenkins and his collaborators rehearse and develop the next Episode, transforming the gallery into both a performance space and a live production house.

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The tremble, the symptom, the swell and the hole together is developed in collaboration with and performed by Magdalena Chowaniec, Jia-Yu Corti, Kwabena Darko, Jonathan Gonzalez, Samuel Kennedy, Matthew Morris, Jayson Patterson and Thelma Sharma.

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Alex Baczynski-Jenkins' 'The tremble, the symptom, the swell and the hole together' is on view at Chisenhale Gallery from 20 January – 12 March 2017.