Tamar Tabori + Maria Servellon
December 26, 2021–January 1, 2022
“Layer 17” by Tamar Tabori
Tell us about the artwork. What makes it unique?
“A single layer dance becomes an imprint of movement after 17 late starts”
””Layer 17" uses the power of layering and luminosity masks to strip away the focal point of dance on film, the body, and utilizes the outline left behind as a starting point for generating new visuals. This work explores the tension between the ephemeral dancing body and the ostensible permanence of digital landscapes.”
Tell us about yourself. How did you come to be an artist in video/digital media?
“As both a dancer and a filmmaker, I am interested in temporality. The union of these two media creates a space in which dance choreography—a form so often rooted in the present—can outlive its initial expression, and be cast into an ongoing future that subverts and transforms its real-time veracity. Film allows me to convey the most authentic reflection of what dance means to me on a deeply personal level, rife with nuance that moves beyond the movement of the body, to the movement of the camera, to the hybrid imaginings of digital forms. Methods of digital intervention actively destabilize the outdated protocols of a homogenized dance world, making room for divergent outputs. As a dancer, I am moved to create work that intrigues the viewer. As a filmmaker, I enjoin the viewer to enter my world and explore their own intrigue. Artists are world-builders, and through my ongoing practice I am able to imagine and invent the interdisciplinary, collaborative, creative future I wish to inhabit.”
“Wavy Remnants” by Maria Servellon
Tell us about the artwork. What makes it unique?
“Wavy Remnants” is a video projection and sound piece done in collaboration with James Cooper. Created in 2020, the work is an experimentation of technical, relational, and individual arts.
How did you come to be an artist in video/digital media?
“I am a filmmaker, multimedia artist, educator, and arts advocate from Boston, MA. I received my BA in Studio Art from UMass Boston, and my MFA in Film and Media Art from Emerson College. My focus is film and digital media, including projection, installation, photography, drawing, and design. My work often explores synesthetic relationships between art, music, and dance. It has exhibited and screened in Massachusetts, New York, California, Oregon, UK, and Mexico thus far.”