Babette Mangolte: A Photo Installation at PS One
(1978)
 
Landscapes and History
(1997)
 
About Looking
(2002)
 
Art Lies and Videotapes: Exposing Performance
(2004)
 
spaces to see, stories to tell
(2007)
 
looking and touching
(2007)
 
presence
(2008)
 
collision
(2008)
 
rushes
(2009)
 
 "How to Look…”
(Whitney biennial, 2010)
 
"While Bodies get mirrored"
(Migros Museum, Zurich, 2010)
 
Movement and Stills
(New York City, 2010)
 
Yvonne Rainer: Testimony to Improvisation (1972-75)
(Glasgow, UK, 2010)
 
Éloge du Vert
(Homage to the Color Green)

VOX, Montréal, Canada 2013

 
TOUCHING III with COLLAGE III
Inhotim, Brazil, 2013
Show curated by Rodrigo Moura: Opening October 24, 2013 for two years till 2015
 
READING OF YVONNE RAINER'S "THIS IS THE STORY OF A WOMAN WHO…”
(WHITNEY MUSEUM “RITUALS OF RENTED ISLAND” 2013)
 
I = EYE Babette Mangolte
(Solo Show at Kunsthalle in Vienna, Austria 2016)
 
Roof Piece Installation
Three contiguous screens with projections of 2K video from 16mm films from the 1973 performance July 1, 1973
(Bordeaux Centre of Contemporary Art, France, 2018)
 
Spaces TO SEE
(Solo Show at Rochechouart Museum of Contemporary Art, in Rochechouart, France 2019)
 
  Movement and Stills
  2010
   
 

Movement and Stills from 2010 was installed at Broadway 1602, New York City, in the small room while the large front room showed the two screen film installation Presence first installed in Berlin for the Berlin Biennial 5 in 2008.

The show Movement and Stills was focused on the dance vocabulary of choreographers like Trisha Brown, Lucinda Childs, David Gordon, Simone Forti and Steve Paxton, all of whom I have chronicled in the 1970s and 1980s.

The display was exploring various ways of “thinking “ about movement


 


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A short text was given to the visitor:

MOVEMENT and STILLS

The show presents various ways to evoke the specifics of the dance vocabulary explored by the choreographers I have followed with my still camera in the 1970s and 1980s. As a filmmaker I had learned to see movement with the motion studies by Edward Muybridge, which led to motion pictures. This return to a basic vocabulary was also one key factor in defining the dance work of the Judson generation.

Digging into my photo archives I have attempted to seize images that are exemplar of specific movement, provide a context for each dance, with its use of improvisation or set patterns. The analytical work of the editing of my archives is manifested by combining several images from one given dance on one print or by unfolding the analysis of multiple images of one dance in a slide show.

I am attempting by grouping disparate photographs to construct a mini portrait of the choreographers whose work is represented here.

Lucinda Childs: various prints from different dances highlight Lucinda's arm movement plus projection of the film Calico Mingling from 1973 plus a composite image made with two shots from Dance 1979.
David Gordon: Contact of The Matter, dance from 1972, in which Gordon used the positions from Edward Muybridge's Human Locomotion Series to shape his choreography, composite image of prints from The Matter and one print from his famous Duet with Two Chairs.
Trisha Brown: the focus is on three dances Line-up (1975, 1976), Water Motor (1978) and Opal Loop (1980)
Simone Forti and Steve Paxton
Yvonne Rainer Story about a Woman who... 1973

Babette Mangolte
June 2010

Review in the Brooklyn Rail by Cora Fisher, September 2010
Reviewed in Artforum by Tim Griffin October 2010