SIMPLE FORM(ATION)S

DeYoung Museum (San Francisco, USA)
2017

Form(ation) IV

live performance

2017

SIMPLE FORM(ATION)S was carried out as a response to the Summer Of Love exhibition at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco, CA that celebrated "50 years of Art, Fashion, and Rock & Roll".

Izidora l LETHE activates her sculptural work Commonality (Simple Form) in this performance through a score that is performed by eleven artists for one hour in 10-minute increments. Formations are changed between standing in front of the DeYoung Museum and performing inside. As the performers were not allowed to wear masks inside the institution for safety measures, the masks were worn in front of the entrance.

Inside, the masks covered the under lip; A strategy used by activists where masking in protests is legally prohibited; Like this, they find ways not to disclose their biometric features and move as and through complicated uniformity.

SIMPLE FORM(ATION)S brings in the exhibition neglected modalities of subversion - both formal and political - of 1968 back to its front lines; The power of a subverted and 'polluted' (post-)minimalism, as well as the politics of love*. Both of those brought tremendous changes to our understandings of culture production, notions of self and political strategies today.

Form(ation) IV

live performance

2017

Form(ation) I

live performance

2017

Form(ation) I

live performance

2017

Form(ation) III

live performance

2017

still between form(ations)

2017

The performance was choreographed and directed by Izidora l LETHE

Performers
Buddy Whistler
Dana Morrison
Guta Galli
Jessica Cooke
Juancy Matos
Matia Emsellem
Rebecca Struch
Ruviane Fetsco
Silk Worm
Zoe Leonard
Zulfikar Bhutto

Vis à vis Tools & Implements: When Function Becomes Form
Whitney Lynn's Artist in Residence at the De Young Museum, Golden Gate Park San Francisco, CA, 2017