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A white man with dark hair wearing a blue button up and pants standing with arms gently gesturing outward in a baroque styled room.

In the First Place...

Colin Gee
Friday, April 5, 2013 at 7PM
studio--2

Part of the DANCE MOViES Commission, this installation officially premieres on April 6, and will be followed by an open reception and panel discussion with all commissioned artists. -- Lecoq trained actor, principal clown for Cirque du Soleil, and contemporary artist Colin Gee presents In the First Place…, a multi-layered dance film installation. The project, filmed in Rome, reframes Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (The Strife of Love in a Dream), an Italian pastoral romance published in 1499. In the First Place… applies a relationship between memory and location by referencing a mnemonic technique called “Memory Palace” that uses architectural spaces to organize and remember information.

Main Image: Video still from In the First Place (2014). Courtesy the artist.

Dates + Tickets

Dance/Theater
Film/Video
Installation
In the First Place...
Colin Gee
Friday 5
7:00 PM
April 2013
Installation
Colin Gee
In the First Place...
Saturday 6
7:00 PM
April 2013
Production Credits

An EMPAC DANCE MOViES Commission.