maria hassabi

TOGETHER 

“Together has a simple title for a complicated question: how to be together? We will also ask: how to be together when everything is falling apart? The contact between the two bodies,  like a spark, occurs: cheek to cheek, head to head, forehead to forehead, then nose to nose and almost mouth to mouth, the infinite tenderness of this desert couple tries to calm the panic pre–apocalyptique”.

Performers: Hristoula Harakas / Maria Hassabi, Oisín Monaghan
Sound Design: Stavros Gasparatos
Outfits: Victoria Bartlett

2020
-Gropius Bau | Berliner Festpiele, Berlin, Germany (January 23, 24)

2019
– Performa 19, New York, US (Nov 6-10)
– Buffalo | Grandipianure, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy (June 2)
– MUDAM Luxembourg Museum, Luxembourg (May 18,19)
– Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland (May 2)
– Premiere: Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St Louis (April 5,6)

 CREDITS

TOGETHER (2019) was commissioned by the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, and supported by “Extended Life,” a program of the Lower Manhattan Council of the Arts. TOGETHER was developed through a residency at FLOOR, NYC.

FIGURES

Four performers executing individual solos made from abstract poses, reveal an emotional narrative through their temporality and proximity to one another.

Performers: Alice Heyward, Mickey Mahar, Oisín Monaghan, Omagbitse Omagbemi
Sound Design: Stavros Gasparatos and Maria Hassabi
Outfits: Victoria Bartlett

 
– Performa 19, New York, US (Nov 6-10)
– MUDAM Luxembourg Museum, Luxembourg (July 20,21)
– Künstlerhaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria (June 29,30)
– GIACIMENTA in the frame of MATERA 2019, Matera, Italy (June 14,15)
– OUT SCORE at Aixoni Sculpted Theater,  Athens, Greece (May 28)

Staging solo #2

K20, Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf - MOVE 2018 - Centre Pompidou - Paris FR, Block Universe - London UK

STAGING Solo #2 (2017) is an iteration derived from Maria Hassabi’s multi-sited live installation STAGING (2017), previously exhibited at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and documenta 14, Kassel. In STAGING: Solo #2, a singular performer, an expanse of a vivid pink carpet, and an ambient soundscape are installed in the monumental space of the Grabbe Halle at K20, Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf. The lone figure in a brightly patterned outfit moves at a measured pace, morphing the body at slow, sometimes imperceptible velocities, as it enacts a two-hour choreographic cycle that loops throughout the museum’s opening hours. Creating a recurrent form that occupies a specific space and seemingly unbroken time, the performer subtly negotiates their task: a detailed choreographic script, the representation of the space itself, and the expectations of the viewer. The initial invitation of a spectacle exhausts itself, and the possibility for an intimate exchange within a quiet site emerges.
 

Performers include: Hristoula Harakas, Maria Hassabi, Niall Jones, Mickey Mahar, Paige Martin, Oisín Monaghan, Nancy Stamatopoulou
Outfits: Victoria Bartlett
Composer: Marina Rosenfeld

Sound Designer: Stavros Gasparatos
Production: Kate Scherer
Management: Alexandra Rosenberg
 
 

 
CREDITS
STAGING Solo #2 (2017) is produced by Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf.
Funded by Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen.

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STAGING (2017) Live installation

STAGING (2017) is the second part of a performative diptych, along with STAGED? (2016). The two works contain similar elements – choreographic material, color palette, light and sound installations, vivid pink carpet – and exist as separate entities, each reflecting the distinct frameworks of their presentation. STAGED?, created for theater spaces, considers the hierarchies of the theatrical apparatus, while STAGING, presented in exhibition contexts, destabilizes similar codes and relationships within institutions. While STAGED? has a set duration, a beginning and an end, STAGING is created in the form of a loop, with its duration determined by the venues’ opening hours.
 
STAGING unfolds as a progression of encounters, installed in multiple sites throughout the building. Apprehended in parts, the accumulation of bodies, colors, sound, light, and architecture, are reminders of multiple fractures of an event that is continually in progress, always STAGING, and which only finds completion in its STAGED? theatrical form.
*** Responding to exhibition contexts, various iterations of STAGING include all or combinations of parts. STAGING – undressed, is an adaptation for public spaces, represented solely by its performers.
 
 
Performers (STAGING: quartet): Jessie Gold, Hristoula Harakas, Maria Hassabi, Oisín Monaghan.
Performers (STAGING: solo): Kennis Hawkins, Niall Jones, Mickey Mahar, Paige Martin, Omagbitse Omagbemi, Nancy Stamatopoulou.
Outfits: Victoria Bartlett
Composer: Marina Rosenfeld
Sound Designer: Stavros Gasparatos
Lighting Supervisor: Zack Tinkelman
Production: Kate Scherer
Management: Alexandra Rosenberg
 
 
SHOWS
2017
– Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada (October 21, 22) — undressed
– Aarhus 2017, City Hall, Aarhus, Denmark (September 25-30) — undressed
– documenta14, Kassel, Germany (September 11–17) – live installation
– Evergreen/Don River Valley Park, Toronto, Canada (July 7, 8) — undressed
– documenta14, Kassel, Germany (June 7 – September 17) – installation
– documenta14, Kassel, Germany (June 7–16)
– Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (February 8 – July 30) – installation
– Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (February 8–19)
 
 
CREDITS
Coproduced by Aarhus 2017, Denmark; documenta14, Kassel; Evergreen/Don River Valley Park, Toronto; Keir Foundation, Sydney; with support from Dancehouse, Melbourne; Ministry of Education and Culture, Cyprus; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Ammodo Foundation, Amsterdam. Partially developed in-residency at Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York.