Japanese installation artist Kohei NAWA, known for his Pixel series in which a taxidermied deer is covered in crystal spheres, and Belgian choreographer Damien JALET will present multiple works as part of GS Arts Center’s Artists Series. Over the past decade, the two have collaborated on wordless performance pieces that explore the relationship between the human body and the cosmos and nature. The program includes their second work, Planet [Wanderer] (2021), the premiere of a new piece that reflects on questions of the human body, reality, and the virtual in the digital age, and the dance film Mist, created with NDT.
On a stage shaped by NAWA’s distinctive exploration of materiality, dancers moving under JALET’s choreography appear to defy gravity, shifting like melting sculptures. For the audience, it can feel like watching a sculpture in motion inside a museum. It is a leading example of interdisciplinary art, reflecting contemporary philosophical currents that seek to move beyond anthropocentrism and examine existence from the perspectives of nature, matter, and the universe.
