NIU Assistant Professor of Sculpture, Michael Rea’s platform sculptures are a featured part of a current installation at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA).
Choreographer Maria Gillespie presents “Tangible Space,” a performance and movement installation, September 29 and October 13, in collaboration with artist Sonja Thomsen, and in response to the notions and materials of Thomsen’s site specific exhibition, “in the space of elsewhere.”
Dancers inhibit and activate Thomsen’s multilevel installation, which extends vertically from MMoCA’s ground-floor lobby and up the building’s iconic, three-story windows. Thomsen’s work heightens the awareness of it surroundings, and Gillespie’s choreography calls similar attention to the materiality of touch, rootedness of presence and the movement of light. The dancers’ expansive gestures maintains a presence achieved through witnessing and reflecting the movements of others inhabiting the space.
Performers include Gillespie, Emily Bartsch and Joelle Worm, and cellist Pat Reinholz. Rea created the platform sculptures.
Performances will be held, Friday, September 29 at 7:00 p.m., and Friday, October 13 at 6:30 p.m. in the lobby of MMoCA. Admission is free of charge.
For more information, visit the MMoCA website. MMoCA is located at 227 State Street in Madison, Wisconsin.
