Centre Pompidou’s First “Move” Art Exhibition

Text and photos by Chen Chi-Hsiang. Centre Pompidou’s first “Move” art exhibition integrates themes of contemporary cross-disciplinary fusion between dance, performance, and moving images. It explores current artistic creation topics and public participation as the main focus of this inaugural edition. The exhibition invites audiences to discover popular interactive creations today, conducting experimental explorations among different relationships within the works.

Two artists currently focused on interaction are invited for live performances: Taiwanese artist Li Ming-wei’s “Our Labyrinth,” a silent ritualistic piece (with no music or sound) where dancers write the mental image of the character “rice” through slow bodily movements using brooms, inviting the audience into contemplative spiritual wandering. Italian artist Marinella Senatore’s nomadic “The School of Narrative Dance” offers the audience a new type of intellectual exchange through dance performance.

This event also includes Centre Pompidou’s “Dance Video” series, established in 1982, serving as the core. This year’s major theme is amateurs, simultaneously opening other perspectives to re-examine important choreographers such as Magy Marin, Lucinda Childs, and Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker.

Finally, “Hips Don’t Lie” combines video art exhibitions by artists and choreographers, deconstructing the practice of viewing at the core of multiple fantasies surrounding Middle Eastern belly dance, taking this opportunity to contrast heavy customs with exotic reinterpretations. Works include those by Zoulikna Bouabdellah, Alil Yalter, Kader Attia, Youssef Nabil, and others. Information sourced from the introduction to Centre Pompidou’s first “Move” art exhibition.