Nowhere and Everywhere at the Same Time, No.2
William Forsythe1949, New York, NY (US) – Frankfurt am Main (DE)
Plumb bobs, string, compressed air cylinders, aluminium frames
Courtesy of the artist
Producer: Julian Gabriel Richter
Technical Conception & Realisation: Max Schubert
Construction & Control: Christian Schubert
Programming: Sven Thöne
A Coproduction of The Forsythe Company
and Ruhrtriennale, International Festival of the Arts
August 24. 2013, Folkwang Museum, Essen /
Ruhrtriennale 2013
Essen, Museum Folkwang, 2013
Brighton, Festival, 2014
Sydney, Art Biennale, 2016
Paris, La Villette, 2017
Rennes, Musée de la Danse, 2018
Sao Paulo, SESC Pompeia, 2019
Houston, MFAH, 2019
Hongkong, West Kowloon Cultural District - Freespace, 2021
Karlsruhe, ZKM, 2023
Abu Dhabi, Berklee Center, 2023
The Ruhrtriennale realisation of Nowhere
and Everywhere at the Same Time No. 2 marks
an entirely new chapter in the development
of this choreographic work. Originally created
for a solo dancer and 40 pendulums in
an abandoned building on New Yorks historic
High Line, the installation has been continuously
developed in contexts as diverse as the
monumental industrial architecture of
the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern, and the
historical setting provided by the Arsenale of
the Venice Biennale. This new edition preserves
and privileges two central interests in
Forsythe's oeuvre: counterpoint and the unconscious
choreographic competence induced
by choreographic situations. Suspended from
automated grids, more than 400 pendulums
are activated to initiate a sweeping 15 part
counterpoint of tempi, spacial juxtaposition
and gradients of centrifugal force which
offers the spectator a constantly morphing
labyrinth of significant complexity. The spectators
are free to attempt a navigation this
statistically unpredictable environment, but
are requested to avoid coming in contact with
any of the swinging pendulums. This task,
which automatically initiates and alerts the
spectators innate predictive faculties, produces
a lively choreography of manifold and intricate
avoidance strategies.
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Underall
Underall II/III
Unsustainables
Untitled Instructional Series
Wirds
White Bouncy Castle
You made me a monster
Abstand
Additive Inverse
Acquisition / Körperschaft / RYBG
Aufwand
Aviariation
Backwards
birds, bonn 1964
Black Flags
Choreographers Handbook
Circuit (Hexagonal)
City of Abstracts
Collide-oscope
Debut
Doing and Undergoing
here i am wasn´t i
Himmel & Hölle
Hinderhold
Human Writes
Human Writes Drawings
I don´t believe in outer space
Instructions
Instruction, Sao Paulo
Inversion
L´Artisanat furieux
Monster Partitur
Never Cease Knotting
Nowhere and Everywhere at the Same Time
Nowhere and Everywhere at the Same Time, No.1
Nowhere and Everywhere at the Same Time, No.2
Nowhere and Everywhere at the Same Time, No.3
Nowhere and Everywhere at the Same Time, No.4
ParaphraseNowhere and Everywhere at the Same Time, No.2
Nowhere and Everywhere at the Same Time, No.3
Nowhere and Everywhere at the Same Time, No.4
Scattered Crowd
The Books of Groningen
The Defenders
The Differential Room
The Fact of Matter
The Sense of Things
Towards the diagnostic gaze
Underall
Underall II/III
Unsustainables
Untitled Instructional Series
Wirds
White Bouncy Castle
You made me a monster