Adam Linder: Full Service

Adam Linder: Full Service
08.09.2018-29.09.2018
Opening reception: Saturday, 08.09.2018 18:30 - 20:30

If you were to hire Some Cleaning (2013), the first Choreographic Service by Adam Linder, a single performer would choreographically clean a gallery space (or any given location). Hiring Some Proximity (2014) involves an art critic and two dancers: in this service, the critic visits nearby exhibitions and makes critical observations and notes on what he or she sees, which are then choreographically interpreted though the voices and movements of the dancers. Some Riding (2015), on the other hand, doesn't reflect its context but reflects itself. You'd be hiring two dancers to read two essays about embodiment and performance, as they ride the cadence of the text with dancerly punctuation. In Some Strands of Support (2016), two dancers can be hired to perform haircare on a suitably upright sculpture or statue. Finally, hiring Dare to Keep Kids Off Naturalism (2017), the fifth and most ambitious Choreographic Service, would mean that four performers use elaborate costumes with modular forms to create ever-changing ornamental, fictional or dramatic scenarios.

To hire any of these services would come with the cost of paying an hourly wage for it.

The Wattis Institute has hired all five services, giving an overview of Adam Linder’s singular approach to dance and performance. Each one is presented over the course of three weeks, across two galleries. Each service is performed successively, but they also overlap and re-appear in different combinations, creating new hybrids and juxtapositions of bodies and movements.

Adam Linder (b. 1983, Sydney, Australia) lives and works in Los Angeles.

Curated by Anthony Huberman and organized by Leila Grothe. The exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous support from the VIA Art Fund, as well as the Wattis Institute’s Leadership Council and Curator’s Forum. Special thanks to Kater and Soleio Cuervo, Hannah Hoffman, Shahryar Nashat, and Andrea Niederbuchner.