Maria Hassabi

October 12, 13, 15–19, 2018, 12-11:30PM

"The US premiere of Maria Hassabi’s SLOW ME DOWN, a moving-image installation commissioned for EMPAC’s 10YEARS celebration. Partially filmed while Hassabi and her dancers were in residence this spring, the work features material from Hassabi’s live installation, STAGING (2017), which was presented internationally in public spaces, museums, and exhibition contexts. Blending collage and post-production effects, SLOW ME DOWN builds a hyper-real frame that augments this footage and participates in the construction of what Hassabi calls a “performative surreality." [...] Maria Hassabi (b. Cyprus) is a New York based artist and choreographer. Her practice utilizes stillness and deceleration as techniques in choreographies that oscillate between dance and sculpture, subject and object, live body and still image, testing conventional rhythms of viewership in the process." (Quote Source)