Jimmy Robert: Éclipser
Jimmy Robert will present a new performance: Éclipser in his first eponymous solo exhibition in Korea at Barakat Contemporary. At once a video and performance, Éclipser expands Robert's ongoing reflections on art historical affinities in connection with Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, whose engagement with language, surfaces and body intersects with Robert's.
Simultaneously tracing Cha's archives at BAMPFA, Berkeley, and invoking her in the present, Robert juxtaposes her materials with sound, words, and movement to underline the similarities and also the differences in their work. As an ethereal, evanescent call for an impossible rendez-vous, Robert extends a dialogue between artistic legacy and present day body, exploring ways in which the materials can be perceived and opened for new meanings.
The works appearing in the film Éclipser are:
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Art Practice - Untitled ~ Sketchbook - Drawings, Correspondence, Notes, Poems, Journal - 1974., 1974; A Strathmore Shelburne sketchbook with 11 loose sheets of paper with typewritten and handwritten text. The sketchbook is spiral bound, 78 pages.; 12 x 10 in.; University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Gift of the Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Memorial Foundation
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Art Practice - The Sand Grain Story - Framed Text and Photo - 1977. , 1980; Typewritten text on paper. A black and white photograph is attached to the paper. Photocopy. (20 copies). 2 photocopies. Signed and dated in pencil.; 14 x 8 1/2 in.; University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Gift of the Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Memorial Foundation
The quotes in the film are from:
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Apparatus; Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima Mon Amour; and Trinh T. Minh-ha.
Editing: Roberta Cotterli
Sound engineer: Jean Marc Guiose
Thanks to:
Jacob Korczynski, Mason Leaver-Yap, Taussif Noor, Laura Graziano, and Stephanie Cannizzo.
