Pencil and ink on tracing paper, plastic
30 × 21,5 cm
Series of 10 unique pieces, thereof 5 (#1 – 5) for the Kölnischer Kunstverein
Certificate
„In DEAD TIME (Maggie’s Solo) (2021) a dancer shifts across a spectrum of heightened activity and waiting. The work is an anatomy study for the 21st century, a moment in time when the human body becomes imaged, both vital and corpse-like. During DEAD TIME (Maggie’s Solo) (2021), a dancer holds static poses modeled on Instagram selfies and 17th-century still-life painting. In order to render her body compressed and entirely still, while she poses, she stops breathing for approximately 45 seconds. My edition is a drawing made from one of her dead-static poses, capturing the moment when respiration is stopped. Partly documentation and mostly a movement score, the sketched figures I draw are a way to chart my dance collaborations and working processes. They stage and examine technical temporal performance climates in which it is increasingly difficult to differentiate between what is alive and what is dead.“ – Cally Spooner
Rooted in philosophy and generated through writing, Cally Spooner’s (*1983 in Ascot, lives in London and Turin) practice unfolds as performance, then lands as film, sound, sculpture, drawings or scores. Her performances incorporate duration and rehearsal as acts of resistance. The artist is part of the ongoing collaboration reboot: of the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf and the Kölnischer Kunstverein.
Previously, Spooner exhibited and performed at gb agency, Paris, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle (both 2021), The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (2019), Swiss Institute, New York, Castello Di Rivoli, Rivoli, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva (all 2018), and Whitechapel Gallery, London (2017), New Museum, New York, and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (both 2016), among others.
