US SWERVE
performance by Alex Baczyński-Jenkins

Sept. 15-17 | Binario 1, OGR Torino
Free admission

OPENING HOURS
Sept. 15 H 6 - 8 p.m.
Sept. 16 and 17 H 3 - 5 p.m.

On Friday, Sept. 15 from 6 to 8 p.m. and Saturday, Sept. 16 and Sunday, Sept. 17 from 3 to 5 p.m., the exhibition will feature the performance Us Swerve by Alex Baczyński-Jenkins, in the spaces of Binario 1.

In Alex Baczyński-Jenkins’ Us Swerve (2014), performers on rollerblades orbit one another while reciting, remixing, and reformulating fragments of poetry that meditate on the subject of desire. This polyphonic choreographic “score” is perpetually altered by the performers’ movements, attitudes, and affects. As the performers circulate, they begin to channel a queer archive of verses and inflections, including lines from writers such as Essex Hemphill, Eileen Myles, and Langston Hughes. These articulations of desire and the sensuality of repetition both set the rollerbladers in motion and create a score for them to move through.

MORE INFO
Iteration at OGR Torino performed by Alonas Kreivaitis, Felipe Faria, Freddy Gutierrez Cifuentes, Jake Sherwood and Karl Fagerlund Brekke
Originally developed in collaboration with and performed by Zacharia Fletcher, Joseph Funnell, Imma Mess, Karl Fagerlund Brekke
Originally commissioned by Fabian Schoneich and produced by Liste – Art Fair Basel, 2014
Studio director: Andrea Rodrigo
Studio manager: Sarie Nijboer
Management Consultant: Rui Silveira
Distribution: Something Great

And the credit of the photo: Photography by Atelier Diptik. Taken from the performance of Us Swerve at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2017.