No man's language, Dana
Levy
Granny Smith, Carla Bobadilla
Anidride, Lidia Sanvito
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The exhibition will running officially from the 4th until the 22nd of October 2007,
with an opening reception on Thursday October 4th from 6-9 p.m.
Catalogue available.
Dana Levy's screening No Man's Language ' Monday to Friday at 11am and 4pm
Artist's talk , 7pm, at Neiman Gallery : Lidia Sanvito Friday, 5 October
Dana Levy Monday, 22 October
Dead End is a reflection on uneasiness originated by illegibility of things.
The works and text in the show have a tension in common: the fear of not having deeply
understood, of being in a system that is going towards short circuit, that pushes to find a way out
a solution that might not exist.
Though coming from very different cultural and artistic backgrounds, the artists express a common
feeling, conveyed in the works through the difficulties of language, the limits of body and desire or
through the repressive confrontation with a colonizing culture.
The film No man's language ' (40min., 2007) by Dana Levy (Israel, 1973) chronicles five years
in the life of her step-grandfather, a cross-dressing holocaust survivor who over the span of 40 years
created an international language, with its grammatical and phonetic rules, that only he speaks.
This is a story of a Jew who doesn't stop wandering. Between places, wives, genders, languages.
Carla Bobadilla 's (Chile, 1976) work Granny Smith ' (2007) refers to a type of an apple, which is
cultivated in Chile to later be exported all over the world. It's one of the most recognized products in
foreign countries. The artist made three types of Chilean national flags using the green of the apple
together with grey-black parts instead of its original colours red, blue and white, thus trying to provide
the flag with a new identity. The photograph shows the act of peeling.
In Chilean slang, the word pelar(to peel) means also a kind of defamation of another person.
Lidia Sanvito (Italy, 1970), builds an environmental installation that people can directly experience.
Anidride '(2004-2007) is made of hundreds of white paper bags that hang from the ceiling and thickly
cover it. The different heights from the floor allow people to place their faces into the paper bags
without difficulty. Beyond their common use, paper bags are actually simple instruments to re-balance
oxygen and carbon dioxide (Anidride in italian) situations of anxiety and panic.
When people suffer of these disturbs, their breath quickens, changing the ratio between the two elements.
Sara Serighelli 's text that accompanies the show should be intended as a backbone on which the
project is organized; actually, it is not a critical text but rather an independent work functional to the idea
of tight spot, rubbing, dead end precisely, which is the inner feeling shared by the artists.
VERY SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Dinamo Milano, Tomas Vu-Daniel, Angelo Colombo/LAB-laboratorioartibovisa Milano,
Fabio Carboni and Bruno Stucchi/Die Schachtel Milano, Consulate General of Israel in New York
O'artoteca Milano, Matthias Finkentey, Katharina Müller, Giulia Formenti, Lavinia Tonetti,
Keri Neff, Linda Fregni Nagler.
Dana Levy's No Man's Language ' is supported by CCA The Fund for Video-Art and Experimental
Cinema in Israel.
Photography by Roni Berkovich, Dana Levy, Raymond Flynn, Racheli Rusinik, Ziv Shiloach.
Original Music: Joseph Levy
DEAD END
Carla Bobadilla | Dana Levy | Lidia Sanvito
A project by Sara Serighelli
Dana Levy's screening No Man's Language ' Monday to Friday at 11am and 4pm
4 22 October, 2007
opening reception Thursday, October 4, 6-9pm
Monday-Friday 9am to 5pm
Free admission, catalogue available.
For more information visit http://arts.columbia.edu.
visualarts@columbia.edu
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