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Kari Rittenbach
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Choreographing the Archive
by Kari Rittenbach January 5, 2011
Rainer’s preferred form of spectatorship recalls the captivated audience of cinema, making her shifts between media and live performance relatively fluid. Hers is an aesthetic openness that finds expression in direction, be it that of the body’s motion or the progressive sequences of film. Thus her most recent works about and/or featuring dance can be staged live or screened as cinema, not because of any ritualized documentation procedure, but because the alchemy of the audience/performer relationship remains consistent.
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Architectures of Silence: The Turner at The Tate
by Kari Rittenbach December 8, 2010
Leading up to Thursday’s scheduled Parliamentary vote on the plan to triple University fees across England, some 200 students occupied the entrance hall of Tate Britain to capitalize on the media turnout. This was the latest in a series of continued protests against the coalition government’s proposed cuts to arts and education. Divided from the assembled prize audience by a temporary barricade, the students were almost drowned out the presentation of Philipsz’s award.
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