Liz Aggiss and Billy Cowie: The
Living Archive
Monday 16th – Saturday 28th June
Installation, films and
live performance
They met on a piano stool in Brighton
more than 25 years ago. Inspired by punk and German expressionism,
and determined to do things differently, Liz Aggiss and Billy Cowie
went on to create a highly distinctive and
influential body of work across a
range of media. In 1982 their anarchic brand of dance was “this
year’s truly bizarre art entertainment” (Performance Mag). In
1990 “provocatively assured they minced up Thatcher”
(Liberte de L’est). In 2002 “their effect on dance-film
innovation could not be overestimated” (Ballet Tanz). By 2008
Liz Aggiss had “proved she is indeed the Vivienne Westwood of
the dance film world” (Londondance.com)
Whatever next?
The Point has commissioned the first
ever retrospective of the duo’s work.
Rediscovering key creations from their
early days as Divas Dance Theatre
through to recent individual projects
this mixture of film screening, video
installation and live performance
starts out at The Point in June, moves onto
Southampton City Art Gallery in July
and in October to the city’s Bargate Monument Gallery.
Accidental Pioneers
The Point foyer and gallery
9.30am - closing
Dance films by Liz Aggiss and
Billy Cowie
In The Point’s foyer and gallery there
is an opportunity to see five innovative
films on four screens. So slip on the
headphones and watch a selection of
award-winning screen-dance films
including Beethoven in Love (1994), Anarchic
Variations, Motion Control (2002), Break (2005) and Diva
(2007).
Thursday 19th June
7.30pm
The Point
Liz Aggiss - Hi
Jinx
Friday 20th June
7.30pm
The Point
Billy Cowie - Anarchic
Dance
18th July - 7th
September 2008
At
Southampton City Art Gallery
Men in the Wall
Men in the wall is a funny lyrical and
engaging large scale film installation. Special glassses are
provided to watch this 3D world of four men whose shared framed
lives reveal a public quartet of private differences. The piece
runs on a continuous 25 minute loop
Entry: free
Open: Tues - Sat 10am - 5pm
Sun 1pm - 4pm
closed
Mondays
1st
October - 2nd November 2008
At Bargate Monument
Gallery
In the flesh
In this unique installation the
audience enters a darkened space wearing 3D glasses. Reaching a
design
ated spot they see a dancer on the ground in front of
them. Although she is in fact a projection, she appears to be
actually in the space, solid and real, she is there in effect, 'in
the flesh'. At the end of her four minute dance she fades into
nothing and the audience retreats.
Picture:Matthew
Andrews
Entry: free
Open: Wed - Fri 11am -
6pm
Sat - Sun 12pm - 5pm
www.anarchicdance.com
