Dec 6th 2009

Chelsea Knight: I Lay Claim to You

@ Julius Cæsar

3144 W Carroll Ave, 2G, Chicago, IL, 60612

Opening Sunday, December 6th, from 4PM - 7PM

On view through Sunday, December 27th

In I Lay Claim to You (single channel video, 2009), Chelsea Knight invites choreographer Khalia Frazier to translate a text — appropriating themes from Margaret Mead’s 1938 description of a Balinese cremation — into a dance. In an improvised rehearsal, Knight and Frazier perform attitudes of identification: claiming and reclaiming ownership of the dancers and of each other. The dancers operate as a Chorus, mediating and transcribing the process. Knight conflates tropes of cultural inscription with the situation of a rehearsal to engage difference and sameness as changeable, conditional and contested categories, whose instability is political.

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