Sculptor Eva Rothschild and choreographer Joe Moran take the first step in a fresh new collaboration for Block Universe Performance Art Festival in partnership with fig-2, an independent project resident at the ICA. Navigating the meeting points and tensions between their sculptural and choreographic concerns, Rothschild and Moran explore the shared and conflicting materiality of the body and the sculptural object.
Presented in both the Studio and Theatre at the ICA, A Setup brings existing film and performance works into relationship with new sculptural interventions. Rothschild’s film Boys and Sculpture (Whitechapel Gallery Children’s Art Commission, 2012) and Moran’s In Land (2008) will be shown in the ICA Studio with benches by Rothschild. Moran’s durational performance installation, Singular (2011) will be performed on the 11, 12 and 13 June in the ICA Theatre with sculptures made for the space and performance by Rothschild.
A Setup is commissioned and co-produced by Block Universe and Fig-2, in partnership with Dance Art Foundation and Eva Rothschild Studio and supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.