We are delighted to invite you to a closing performance at Night Gallery North on Tuesday, September 12th at 7pm. This event will feature CLOSING CEREMONY, a special performance by the artist MPA marking the conclusion of her exhibition Series Collapsed.
MPA’s practice is rooted in performance, and much of her exhibition considers the hazy boundary between art and life. CLOSING CEREMONY follows the ongoing performance Back Room Talk, which takes place each Saturday while the exhibition remains on view. These performances introduce a sense of authentic, spontaneous connection into the space, rethinking the boundaries of a traditional "white cube" presentation.
The performance will feature a soundtrack by MPA and Leroy Chaar (Amsterdam) and involve the uncoiling of a central installation in Series Collapsed through an original score activated by friends of the artist: Tyler Matthew Oyer, Alan Poma, Yunuen Rhi, Davia Spain, and Logan Wolfe. CLOSING CEREMONY considers what a "but to butt" relationship may open in contrast to enclosed and infinite loops of violence and settlement.
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Leroy Chaar (Amsterdam, 1995) is a composer, sound designer and librettist based in Amsterdam. His work fuses his background in experimental electronic music with his interests in literature and philosophy. Projector, the most recent release under his Fien moniker, was released in 2022. Chaar also works as a sound technician at the Internationaal Theater Amsterdam.
Called an "interdisciplinary gospel immortalist" by filmmaker Kembra Pfahler, Tyler Matthew Oyer is an artist, writer, organizer, musician and educator based between Los Angeles and Berlin. Their work reconsiders the past as something not gone, but as material and ideas that live in and through us, shaping how we see ourselves and our world. Their work has been presented at Volksbühne Berlin, MoMA PS1, The Getty Museum, REDCAT, Hammer Museum, The Broad Museum, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Shedhalle Zürich, High Desert Test Sites, and Highways Performance Space.
Alan Poma is a Peruvian artist residing in Los Angeles. His works have been exhibited in museums such as the Museo Experimental el Eco in Mexico and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lima. His ability to merge artistic disciplines is reflected in multimedia performances, such as his Adaptation of the cubo-futurist opera Victory over the Sun. In 2019 he published the Andean Futurist Manifesto, awakening the interest of contemporary Andean artists and poets. From this connection a collective "Lxs Demonixs del Ande" emerged, promoting a series of performances and exhibitions together since 2021.
Yunuen Rhi is a fifth generation Ma Gui Baguazhang instructor, wellness coach, performance artist, and applied anthropologist. Their Mexican and Korean roots have led them to cultivate Western, Eastern, and Native medicine pathways as an antidote for unifying the fragmented individual and collective bodies across ecologies and borders. Through the use of social practice, indigenous and Chinese martial art strategies, Yunuen’s performance work offers a tangible embodied bridge between performance and community. Their research investigates ancestral practices and the body as a source of self-healing and their Baguazhang practice is the complex movement system they use to incite accountability and change from within.
Logan Wolfe is a processual artist whose practice explores the ethics of documentation and surveillance through durational performative gestures. Documentation serves as substance to an ephemeral archive towards reframing the fugitive traces of queer life and desire, while also questioning the possibility of ethical documentation at all. Performance becomes a mode in which the artist can manifest the body as corpus of erased pages, the Scar, the memory Here and Gone, towards a reimagining of a language in a world that is not built for (us). Logan most recently self-published a small collection of documentation as writing under the title Ars Poetica [Poetic Burn], in which he questions the reliability of language and intimacy (in words unsaid).