#noaeshkol

Expanded Craft @henrikkecroynielsen opening Friday in the context of @curatedby.at @nicolastrembley with #noaeshkol and @uchinonatsuko Noa Eshkol is primarily a radical choreographer. In 1954 she founded the Noa Eshkol Chamber Dance Group and invented the pioneering Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation to capture and analyze corporeal movement. In parallel to her dance practice, she produced hundreds ​‘Wall Carpets’ similar to quilts, starting in the early 70’s for a period of more than three decades. She pieced together scraps of fabric collected from textile workshops or gifted from friends and sewed them on larger swaths of fabric, such as blankets or bedspreads. Those vibrant and colorful abstract works can be displayed either horizontally on the floor or vertically on the walls and are only composed of found elements without a single fragment ever being cut. Thank you @neugerriemschneider https://www.instagram.com/p/CTO5jRZtWF5/?utm_medium=tumblr

this video documents a performance where two women move robotically to the beat of a metronome. they are almost synchronized. one woman is middleaged, one woman is older. two carpets hang behind them as they create a metaphor for time with their bodies. the carpets were made by Noa Eshkol, inspired by the movements of bodies. there is a give and take between the carpets and the performers. both have been seen as household objects. both are seen to be passive, both are stepped upon. in the performance, the carpets hang upright, to be glorified, relegated to be memories on the wall, and the women look passively in front of themselves while they dance, almost as though they are being programmed, or made to move by a puppet master. these actions are not their own. it feels like they are performing the feminization of waiting. 

Noa Eskhol | Sharon Lockhart  - performance by member of the Noa Eshkol Chamber Dancing Group

Noa Eshkol Chamber Dance Group at Bonniers Konsthall, Sweden