A recent show I wish I had gone to see! Unfortunately the performance was a one off, but the gallery-based exhibition is on at the Showroom in London until 15 April:
Asparagus: A Horticultural Ballet is a live performance piece inspired by rumour and myth. In the late 1970s, while still a student, Waw Pierogi, later of an obscure New Jersey minimal synth band xex, composed the interdisciplinary Asparagus: A Horticultural Ballet. No documentation of the piece exists, but Pil and Galia Kollectiv have become fascinated by this work, alongside another lost work, Oskar Schlemmer’s Triadic Ballet. The Kollectivs’ desire is not to recreate either, but rather they are intrigued by the possibilities of making a new work through the collision of ideas left behind by former art movements and other cultural phenomena. For them
unrealised, forgotten and failed revolutions are as much a legacy of modernism as the utopian belief in progress that we have inherited.
Originally from Jerusalem, Israel, Pil and Galia Kollectiv moved to London to study on the Goldsmiths MA course. The couple work collaboratively as
artists, writers, independent curators and lecturers
Les Georges Leningrad are Montréal’s preeminent art-punks, blending dub, disco, post-punk and no-wave to create an aesthetic form that demolishes the lines between music presentation and promotion.
The Showroom, 44 Bonner Road, London E2
For further information go to the gallery’s website
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