Elegy by Gabrielle Goliath
Mesh 6–8 April 2018
Event photograph from the offsite performance of ‘Elegy’ by Gabrielle Goliath at the D!STURB festival in Paris. A lineup of performers dressed in black stretches to a wooden podium with a performer standing on it on the right.
Event: Elegy by Gabrielle Goliath curated by Vittoria Matarrese at DO D!STURB, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, April 6, 2018–April 8, 2018. Image courtesy of Ayka Lux.
Title Elegy by Gabrielle Goliath Dates 6–8 April 2018 Location Offsite Tagline Gabrielle Goliath’s Elegy (2015) at DO D!STURB, a hybrid three-day festival of dance, music, video and performance at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.
Curator Vittoria Matarrese
Credits

Artist:
Gabrielle Goliath

Festival:
DO D!STURB

Host:
Palais de Tokyo

Guest curators:
A4 Arts Foundation (Cape Town)
CND Centre National De Le Danse (Pantin)
Hayward Gallery (London)
Human Resources (Los Angeles)
Store X The Vinyl Factory (London)
Verbo Performance Art Festival (Sao Paulo)

DO D!STURB (2018) invites A4 Arts Foundation to participate as a guest curator from the African continent. This collaboration results in a performance of Gabrielle Goliath's Elegy (2015).

"Gabrielle Goliath began the long-term commemorative performance project Elegy in 2015.

Each performance calls together a group of female vocalists who collectively enact a ritual of mourning. This ongoing series of commemorative gestures is staged in various locations and contexts.

Elegy performs a sustained, sung 'cry' – evoking the presence of an absent individual. It is a physically taxing experience for the performer due to its duration and intensity. Responding to the physical, ontological and structural outworkings of rape culture in South Africa, the performance of Elegy recalls the identity of individuals whose subjectivities have been fundamentally violated – and who are, as such, all too easily consigned to a generic, all-encompassing victimhood."

– adapted from the artist's website
Event: Elegy by Gabrielle Goliath curated by Vittoria Matarrese at DO D!STURB, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, April 6, 2018–April 8, 2018. Image courtesy of Ayka Lux.
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Event photograph from the offsite performance of ‘Elegy’ by Gabrielle Goliath at the D!STURB festival in Paris. A lineup of performers dressed in black stretches to a wooden podium with a performer standing on it on the left.
Event photograph from the offsite performance of ‘Elegy’ by Gabrielle Goliath at the D!STURB festival in Paris. A lineup of performers dressed in black stretches to a wooden podium with a performer standing on it in the middle.
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