Space: 1454 E. 53rd St.
Artist: Granite Amit & Inbal Amit
Website: graniteamit.com
Title: Bach is Everything
Medium: Mixed Media Installation
Description:
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Bach is every thing David, my beloved multi- handicapped student is blind with recurrent seizures; sever autism, and history of sexual abuse.
He appears catatonic but responds to the music of Bach. He rises from his wheel chair and moves slowly, twisted, transforming into a total Butoh dancer with gestural body that communicates the sublime oblivion and the ridiculous, the awkward, and the eloquent the grotesque and the lucid.
He creeps to the speakers, licks them and illuminated with an angelic smile cries-
“ Help, beautiful, help”
defining for us the negative space of our collective awareness.
“When I begin to wish I was crippled… even though I am perfectly healthy or rather that I would have been better off born a cripple, that is the first step toward Butoh.”
Tasumi Hijikata
Statement: I am inspired by art that addresses social and political issues, and connects them to broader more general questions of humanity and the human condition. I am inspired by art that has the sophistication, focus, and warmth to communicate both an immediate emotional experience and an analytical description of that experience.
The message encompassed in a work of art, is to some extent, an embodiment, a translation of the artist herself, reflecting how she constructs and connects the emotional psychological space with the physical one.
Fusing the semantic information with visual presentation, within the perception of the spectator, my installations amplify the sensory experience of communication. My pieces are composed of visually- layered prints on translucent materials, prints on lenticular lenses, texts, animated narratives projected into the space of the installation, and, in recent pieces are enhanced by audio and motion components. Yet these visuals are merely symbols of the creative play of articulating the complex and rich human dynamics and interactions.
Bio: Granite Amit is an Israeli born interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Chicago, USA. She is involved with various community based outreach art projects and dialogue groups. Amit also works as a therapist in a variety of settings and has created exhibitions in collaboration with her clients as part of the therapeutic process. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally in places such as Chicago, New York, Paris, Edinburgh, Washington, Toronto, and Hamburg. Amit’s work has been widely reviewed in various journals such as the Chicago Tribune and L’Humanité, France among others.
