Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay
January 10 – 18, 2013
January 10 – 18, 2013
Day Breaks Instead of Night Falling
Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay
Exhibition opening @ 7pm, Thursday, January 10
Exhibition
Day breaks instead of night falling
It was morning, and yet it was dusk. A call was heard from a golden horn. A call echoed from deep within the forest. A call was silently inferred: a lost memory from decades past. The call was made of many voices, and the voices were strange.
Evocative voices from history find their way into a suite of sound and video pieces by Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, punctuated by performance, print and textile.
Performance
Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay with Layard Thompson
A live mise-en-scne to accompany the gilded lamentations of Nemerofsky’s sound installation The Return. An incantation of simultaneous day break and twilight, with gestures, words and calls gleaned from texts by Jean Genet and Hans Christian Andersen.
Biographies
Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay (1973) is an artist and diarist. His creative gestures in video, sound, print and textiles contemplate the history of song, the rendering of love and emotion into language, and the resurrection and manipulation of voices – sung, spoken or screamed. His work has been exhibited throughout Canada, Europe and Asia and is represented in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada. www.nemerofsky.ca
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Layard Thompson’s work – including four adaptations of solos by quixotic choreographer Deborah Hay – typically employs movement, vocals and elaborate costume/sets. Currently, he is developing two collaborations with choreographers Hana van der Kolk and Scott Heron. In November, his evening-length work with Heron, A-1 TWINK SPREE MELEE performed at New Orleans Fringe Festival to sold out audiences.
In the past, he has had the pleasure of being a founding member of gender-fuck clowns The Pixie Harlots and working with such performing artists as Justin Vivian Bond, Taylor Mac, and Juliette Mapp, among others. In the Spring of 2010, he re-performed four works by seminal performance artist Marina Abramovic in her historic retrospective The Artist is Present at New York’s Museum of Modern. He has appeared in two films, Jonathan Caouette’s Tarnation and John Cameron Mitchell’s Shortbus. Layard lives in rural Tennessee amongst a community of queer homesteaders on an artist-owned and operated community center and retreat space known as Sassafras. www.layardthompson.com
Schedule
Day breaks instead of night falling
Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, Berlin/Montreal
ART EXHIBITION/INSTALLATION:
– OPENING 7PM – VARIOUS COMPONENTS
– Continues to January 18
PERFORMANCE BY BENNY NEMEROFSKY RAMSAY WITH LAYARD THOMPSON
– 8PM – ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY
