Anh Vo: introjective exhibition presented by CPR as part of OPEN STUDIOS curated by Kenneth Tam, December 14, 2023. Photo by Elyse Mertz. Image courtesy CPR.
Free, RSVP required (limited audience)
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Mon, February 5 at 6 P.M.
Mon, February 12 at 6 P.M.
Mon, Febraury 19 at 6 P.M.
Mon, February 26 at 6 P.M.
Mon, March 4 at 6 P.M.
Mon, March 11 at 6 P.M.
Mon, March 18 at 6 P.M.
Mon, March 25 at 6 P.M.
introjective exhibition (nhập xuất nhập xuất) is a choreographic practice researching the body as a vehicle for thinking, feeling, translating, communicating, theorizing, and dancing. This practice with 2024 Artist-in-Residence Anh Vo will manifest in a series of weekly performances every Monday in February and March 2024 for a limited 10-person audience, where this bodily sensuous vessel will be mobilized to make contact with others' haunted selves and give them provisional forms to be put on public display.
Thinking through the Kleinian psychoanalytic concept of "projective identification" and Vietnamese shamanistic possession rituals, both of which presuppose the instability of the individual psychic container, introjective exhibition wallows in the risk of losing oneself in communing with otherness. If our ghosts demand to be seen and heard despite our conscious wishes to exorcise them, how can dance and performance create an intimate transitive space that can seduce this necessary loosening of the individual will?
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Anh Vo is a Vietnamese choreographer and writer based in Brooklyn. Described by the New York Times as "risky, erotic, enigmatic and boldly humorous," their works flesh out the tremulous sexual body as a vessel for apparitional forces. Their most recent performances attempt to communicate the monotonous oppressiveness that is the weather of postwar contemporary Vietnam. Vo received their degrees in Performance Studies from Brown University (BA) and New York University (MA). They are currently a 2023-2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow and a CPR 2024 Artist-in-Residence.