{"id":14220,"date":"2009-02-23T21:19:43","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T02:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=14220"},"modified":"2011-05-20T21:20:10","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T01:20:10","slug":"lorna-simpson-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=14220","title":{"rendered":"Lorna Simpson &#8220;Momentum&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-14221\" title=\"lorna simpson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/lorna-simpson-560x373.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/lorna-simpson-560x373.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/lorna-simpson.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over the past five years, <a href=\"http:\/\/lsimpsonstudio.com\/\"><strong>Lorna Simpson<\/strong><\/a> has been making artwork that explores the relationship of the photographic archive to self-fashioning.\u00a0\u00a0 With <em>Momentum<\/em>, Simpson continues her exploration of history and memory with a new video and a suite of serigraphs on felt that draw on a monumental event from the artist\u2019s own past.<\/p>\n<p>Her new video, Momentum recreates one aspect of a ballet performance at Lincoln Center that Simpson participated in when she was eleven. The memory of the choreography of the performance has long faded, but what remains is an indelible image of pirouetting on-stage covered from head to toe in gold.\u00a0 For the video, Simpson has assembled a company of more than a dozen professional and student dancers donning gold body paint, gold Afros and gold ballet shoes.\u00a0 Filmed against a stark white background, the dancers stand in formation, coming to life with tail-spinning twirls, interrupted by long passages of repose.\u00a0 Mirroring Simpson\u2019s memory of the event, the video\u2019s narrative structure is fragmented by moments of inactivity.\u00a0 Simpson recalls her transformation from spectator to performer and her intense desire to be in the audience while on stage.\u00a0 This video completes the transition, illuminating the tenuous relationship between memory and event, performance and spectatorship.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-14222\" title=\"lorna simpson1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/lorna-simpson1-560x840.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/lorna-simpson1-560x840.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/lorna-simpson1.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Accompanying the video are four large-scale felt works featuring interior and exterior photographs of Avery Fisher Hall and the Metropolitan Opera House, gathered from Simpson\u2019s archive of post-cards from the 1960\u2019s.\u00a0 Printed primarily in gold ink, the images of Lincoln Center function as surrogate sites for Simpson\u2019s narrative, lending it both a mystical, otherworldly feel and historical verisimilitude.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/salon94.com\/exhibition\/momentum\"><em>Salon 94 Bowery<\/em><\/a>, 243 Bowery at Stanton St, NYC, 212-979-0001, through June 18<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past five years, Lorna Simpson has been making artwork that explores the relationship of the photographic archive to self-fashioning.\u00a0\u00a0 With Momentum, Simpson continues her exploration of history and memory with a new video and a suite of serigraphs on felt that draw on a monumental event from the artist\u2019s own past.<br \/>\nHer new video, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[709,887,1010],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14224,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14220\/revisions\/14224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}