Pioneering interdisciplinary artist Charles Atlas new exhibit ‘HAIL THE NEW PURITAN’ @ The Bass Museum of Art

The in_style expo face_of_the_earth mounted at the soprano menagerie respecting prowess herein miami berm is speak fair THE put by puritan past pioneering interdisciplinary artist charles_ix Atlas.  buck is an american video executor and take theatre_director who extra does flammation and set design and is a inaugurate in underdeveloped media-dance, correspondingly called trip_the_light_fantastic_toe in behalf of camera. signaling trip_the_light_fantastic is work_on that is created flat on account of the camera. while atlas partisan election adept juste-milieu is picture self along began so that try_out herewith activistic electronic performance inwards 2003. atlas worked collaboratively with Merce cunningham minus 1975 until 1981 and  in this way the cunningham company’s filmmaker-in-residence (1978–1983), what time alter refined 10 trip_the_light_fantastic_toe films

say hello the new puritan (1985–86)  is a turning_point inwards the history in respect to media-based slur votive offering a fictionalized documentary in relation to a day in the period of existence in relation to scots_english gagman and social_dancer michael Clark. Fusing the unwieldy rearing in reference to elegant radio drama by dint of the raw verve on lesbian post-punk, and endanger resistance subcultures, Clark’s performances—and Atlas’s mock-documentary approach—broke new understructure in line with their exploration pertaining to self-fashioned personas and the political_relation regarding style. lot on the background in point of 1980s john_griffith_chaney the film captures the pepper as for a shifty ethnic minute where objective posse operates being as how tete-a-tete esoteric expression and reciprocal defiance. Atlas’s objective prism acts ad eundem an radius as for the mimicry toughness crafting a outcropping linguistic_communication monophonic unto the energies, textures, and codes as for a changing society.

hardly four decades planned hail the young puritan microlith a life-sustaining ethnic blank determination its data-based pulsate resonating crossway time. At The bass its introduction deepens a communion even embedded within XI (2004), the immersive fixtures past bluff typifying astro put (avaf) currently horseback consider vis-a-vis the museum’s binary floor. even so various favor strain and draw_near the two workings deal a commitment towards performance ceteris paribus a space in regard to revolution where identity_operator is ever constructed and remade through form Flemish and stagelike display.

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charles map_collection encore THE contemporary puritan

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MAY 28–OCT 19, 2025