A Poetic Body: SWAN by Martina Young
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    • Philosophy & Approach
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Hieros Gamos (Divine Union)

1/14/2016

 

Renato Elisei

1/14/2016

 
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Renato Elisei, Photographer, Italy.

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Il Rubino

1/14/2016

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Anna Marie Mackowitz

9/21/2015

 
Anna Maria Mackowitz’s images are moving. With full use of the color palette, the painter abandons the creative act of an untamed force and captures the quality of the elementals on canvas and paper. There is nothing artificial, painted, nor polished. The works are not subject to any order, and yet they are not thrown. They are focused.

It is perhaps music that gives the drive to these images. Or nature with all its aspects: violent, waxing, vibrating. But with Anna Maria Mackowitz, the perceived exterior merges with the interior in an understanding that it is the only reasonable way. The paintings are snapshots of desire and death. At the moment the shape becomes human and perception into play, the viewer also comprehends a gesture, a sign, a body. Shape is recognizable, but appears not detained, not even dispelled. What emerges dissolves instantly on again. Not because the artist wants it so, but because it is so.

Snapshots of vitality and dissolution, and these two are not in contrast. Desire is not compatible with a concept of death as destruction. Death/dissolution is only one phase in the constant progressive movement, which is also desire at the same time. Energy is not exhausted, only changed, reshaping itself again and again. Once she is deep blue, once azure, another time turquoise. Once calmly forming water? An eye? Due to another eddy rising high, something looks for an exit, another creates a border. Ensuring that everything has already been said. “Fair enough!” seems to express the painter. It is enough—the essence, the energy, the movement, the strength to paint—in it all beauty is contained as potential.  
-Erika Wimmer

Countless layers of paint superimpose the picture surfaces of Anna Maria Mackowitz. In her work, the light gets caught in the picture, color is not visible by light, but rather the light penetrates the color and becomes a significant polarity between traditional structures and their reshaping.

In this case, the subject is waived; the color with all its diffuse modulations is the focal point. Shapeless - abstract as an organic flow, the painting of Anna Maria Mackowitz develops itself, reflecting passage of time, growth and change, emergence and death.

The images draw the viewer into a dimension of infinity– mysterious, compacting. Like a sweeping symphony caught on subtle color schemes like filmy vibrations on profound images.

"If you could only hear the sound of snow." (Hakuin Ekaku)
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Elisabeth Melkonjan


[biography translated by Amanda Hinson]

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SWAN ROAD

11/22/2014

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SWAN ROAD
photograph by Artist in Residence Anne Murray, Arte Studio Ginestrelle, Italy 2014.

Anne will complete her short film, SWAN ROAD for the SWAN Project. Look for it here.
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Vinny Golia

10/15/2014

 
As a composer  Vinny Golia fuses the rich heritage of Jazz, contemporary classical and world music into his own unique compositions. Also a bandleader, Golia has presented his music to concert audiences in Europe, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and the United States in ensembles varying dramatically in size and instrumentation. Mr. Golia has won numerous awards as a composer, including grants from The National Endowment of the Arts, The Lila Wallace Commissioning Program, The California Arts Council, Meet the Composer,Clausen Foundation of the Arts, Funds for U.S. Artists and the American Composers Forum. In 1982 he created the on-going 50 piece Vinny Golia Large Ensemble to perform his compositions for chamber orchestra and jazz ensembles.
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Vinny Golia
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Stephen Burr

9/23/2014

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Stephen Burr
Stephen Burr of SeeHear Studios is the SWAN Video Documentarian.


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Gianni Mimmo

9/23/2014

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Gianni Mimmo
GIANNI MIMMO Pavia, Italy. 1957. Work :A saxophonist and composer in the fields of jazz and experimentation for over 25 years, he has produced a series of original projects with highly disparate groups. His interest in the contamination between the arts has lead him to participate in numerous interdisciplinary activities, in particular those which examine the relationship between music-text and music-image.

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Jill Altmann

9/23/2014

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Jill Altmann
I find inspiration for my work in the Great Basin surroundings of Nevada and California- from monochromatic winters to dramatic summer sunrises and sunsets. History and craft techniques of previous cultures, research, travel, and hands-on experience augmented with sophisticated equipment of computers, luscious yarns supply boundless resources. I find the combination of weaving and knitting techniques and textures an inspiration in itself.

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Dancing Body: Philosophy and Approach

8/25/2014

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SWAN: a poetical inquiry in dance, text, & memoir (Hieros Gamos, ‘divine union’)

La practica e filosophia di L. Martina Young

Dance Artist / Movement Investigator!
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Dancing as a way of being (ontology/ontologia) ~

Every part of a body is an intelligent organ,— perceptive, poetic in its relational acumen, thinks
by feeling, and feels by heart. Night and day, life is noted, breathed in, breathed out,— notitia
imprinted and exuded through skin and membrane. Wholly articulate in its sensual brilliance, in its
wounded grace, bodies translate corporeal compassion. Always empathic, always intact, a body
moves toward balance even in brokenness. Dancing thus raises being to another level.

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Dancing as a way of knowing/not (epistemology/epistemologia) ~

Throughout the lifespan, our bodies offer a portal, a return to the content of ourselves,--
primordial content that links, negotiates, and integrates the actualities and necessities of our
human-being-here. Dancing along the divide between life and death, every move embodies such
content.

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Dancing as somaesthetic & poetic practice (somàtica estetica e poetica) ~

As a generative and generous act, a dancing body is both the pause and the punctuation that
engenders meaning in experiences,— every moment a detail of life being lived, considered--
through felt image, specific and non-specific memory, rhythm, and through the spontaneous
relationships made with one’s body/soul, with and without the world.

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Photograph by Anne Murray
Arte Studio Ginestrelle, Italy 2014


“The green and vermillion glow catches fire, shoots rays, pulsates, subsides, rises again,
exploding, all in utter silence”
~ excerpt, “Passages” Giovanni Pascoli

“[Like] a ray of light, gesture reflects all that passes in the soul.
[For memory], let it be divined, revealed by gesture.”
~ François Delsarte

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This project has been funded, in part, by the Nevada Arts Council, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
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  • A Poetic Body
    • Philosophy & Approach
    • Critical Acclaim
  • Arabesque
  • The SWAN Project
    • Black Swans, an opera poem
    • The SWAN Project
    • The SWAN Lectures
    • Her story
  • The Dance Gallery
    • Gallery I
    • Gallery II
    • Gallery III
    • Gallery IV
    • Gallery V
  • Shop
  • Contact