between heaven and earth
Matty Davis
Friday, August 17, 2018
12:00 - 6:00pm
Matty Davis, between heaven and earth, 2016, color video with sound, RT 8:00
signs and symbols presents between heaven and earth, a screening of a video work conceived, performed, edited and produced by artist Matty Davis as part of artists & allies. between heaven and earth is based on a 509-mile journey by foot across the Midwest in relation to the path of a downed plane. The artist gives particular thanks to Greg Saunier for his assistance with sound on this video work.
matty davis is a dancer and visual artist whose work pits the body against often radical undertakings and journeys that explore the limits and empathic possibilities of embodiment, memory, and love, as well as the origin of materials and mark-making. His interest in the conditions surrounding movement and how they impact speed, friction, and the body’s energy systems have led to dances being staged in Death Valley, the Rocky Mountains, the Atlantic Ocean, upon the rural ball fields of Oklahoma, and atop deserted tractor-trailers in the Great Smoky Mountains. Davis received his MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014. In 2015, he was awarded an artist residency at the Watermill Center, and was the recipient of a 2016 Visual Arts Fellowship from the Edward F. Albee Foundation. Davis is a co-founder, co-director, and the principal performer within BOOMERANG, a daringly physical, poetically nuanced dance and performance project. Davis has presented work in New York at venues such as Dixon Place, the 92Y, Judson Church, and at the United Nations, as well as at Steppenwolf Theater and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, The Arts Arena in Paris, and at Berliner Festspiele in Berlin.