Eiko & Koma: Time is Not Even, Space is Not Empty

Friday, Jun 24–Sunday, Nov 13, 2011

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View from above of two nude people lying in a nest

Eiko & Koma, Naked, 2010

Photo: Anna Lee Campbell

Influential and venerated Japanese-born choreographers and dance artists Eiko & Koma have been making collaborative works for more than 40 years. Their stark, elemental works use precision and stillness to create slowly evolving images that have placed their bodies in landscapes, rivers, and graveyards. This exhibition is part of an ongoing three-year retrospective created by Eiko & Koma in creative collaboration with various organizations, including the MCA. The exhibition features photographic and video documentation of their past performance works, set and prop pieces, and a large-scale installation of the work, Naked, featuring a massive nest that will be inhabited by the artists several times throughout the run of the exhibition.

Eiko & Koma, *Offering*, 2002 Photo: Varga Matyas

Performances

The artists perform multiple times throughout the course of the exhibition. Performances are free with admission unless otherwise noted.

Jun 24–26, 1–5 pm, and Jun 28, 1–8 pm
Nov 8, 1–8 pm, and Nov 9–13, 1–5 pm

This is a durational performance that takes place in the galleries; the audience may come and go.
Aug 23–24, 7:30–9 pm

This is a durational performance that takes place on the MCA Plaza; the audience may come and go.
Sep 22–24, 7:30 pm
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Performed in the MCA Theater