robbinschilds

robbinschilds

The Physics Room / Arts Centre International Artists in Residence | 19 November-19 December 2009

Blending dance, performance art and visual art, robbinschilds-New Yorkers Sonya Robbins and Layla Childs-create visually engaging artworks that explore the range of relationships and interactions possible between humans and architecture or the natural landscape.

This final residency of 2009 for the Arts Centre's Artist in Residence (AIR) Programme brings robbinschilds to Christchurch and is a partnership between the Arts Centre and The Physics Room, with additional support provided by the Canterbury Community Trust and the Embassy of the
United States of America.

While based at the Arts Centre , robbinschilds will work on new performance and film projects utilising their movement vocabularies and processes. Meantime, their colour and sound-laden work, C.L.U.E. (Color Location Ultimate Experience) will be installed and adapted to gallery
space in The Physics Room (25 November-20 December).

C.L.U.E. is video and performance work that is constantly in flux, adapting and changing to the spaces it occupies. A collaborative work between robbinschilds, A.L. Steiner (Chicks on Speed), AJ Blandford and Seattlebased
band Kinski, C.L.U.E. sees robbinschilds interpret and investigate a range of spaces-a beach, the city, a car wrecking yard, a forest, rock formations in remote locations-with their bodies. C.L.U.E. reads like a fusion between performance art, contemporary dance documentation
and music-video that is full of joie de vivre, subtle humour and play, gently questioning how as humans we shape and interpret the earth.

Since its 2007 premiere at Taxter & Spengemann gallery in New York, C.L.U.E has been hosted by galleries and venues around the USA, Europe and China.

The Arts Centre and The Physics Room are developing a range of public events which will take place in the Arts Centre, The Physics Room and around the city. These will include artist talks, a discussion panel/forum bringing together ideas about dance, human geography, performance, visual art and architecture, along with performances and workshops.