Elevation 1049 is pleased to announce its 2023 winter iteration, “Interstices.” Launching over the weekend of February 3–5, Elevation 1049: “Interstices” will convene for the opening weekend a diverse group of international visual and performing artists who will present a program of live performances in various indoor and outdoor locations in and around Gstaad. Participating artists will include: Silva Agostini, Tarek Atoui, Simon Beck, Salomé Chatriot, Serge Attukwei Clottey, Mimosa Echard, Fabrice Gygi, Jon Rafman, Michele Rizzo, and Michael Wang.
Many of the works will explore the divide between the human body and our material environment. Ushered in by a samba-based ritual “Healing Bug Acupun Earth,” a sculptural installation by Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto which will remain in situ until 16 April 2023, describes an invisible line connecting the literal peaks and troughs of existence from the mountain top to the valley floor.
Playing to the darker side of the mythic-existential duality are Tarek Atoui’s improvisational composition scored to the tectonic sounds of cracking ice, Salomé Chatriot’s simultaneous inhalation and exhalation of her surroundings, Michael Wang’s real-time image of the dark side of the moons lunar rotation and Fabrice Gigy’s trial by fire.
Elsewhere amidst the deafening silence of alpine peaks, strains of Wagner stream from Silva Agostini’s orchestration of mountain vehicles, while Jon Rafman’s dark AI-based narrative recalls a video game played by Hieronymus Bosch to the live accompaniment of Hampus, a virtuoso organ player. Simon Beck’s large-scale ephemeral drawings evoke the imprint of geometry on the virgin grandeur of the landscape, whilst Mimosa Echard chooses the intimacy of a sauna to explore ideas of tears, sweat and human liquidity.
Alongside these explorations of the space in between things we find Serge Attukwei Clottey’s performance connecting the snow covered peaks with the shores of his native Ghana, and Michele Rizzo’s invocation of rave culture suggesting a choreography of possibility that is both ritualised and celebratory.
In this edition of Elevation 1049, artists and artwork shade the interstitial spaces that exist in between the spectacular alpine landscape and the dreams flickering within its unique space and time. Like the snow that provides the backdrop to the show, the works will be durational, vivid and present for a moment before melting into memory and myth.
Elevation 1049 is conceived and produced by Luma Foundation.
“Interstices” concept by Neville Wakefield and Olympia Scarry.
Free admission.
Elevation 1049 next edition will take place this summer (July–September, 2023) in and around St. Moritz and the Engadine Valley, Switzerland.
