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Annabel Guérédrat and Henri Tauliaut hold hands while staring defiantly ahead dressed in red mesh clothing
Event
ArtIncidence - Nu Descendant L’Escalier
9 May 2020
Regular hours
- Sat, 09 May
- 19:45 – 20:30
Cost of entry
£18 / £16
Address
- 53 New Walk
- Leicester
- LE1 7EA
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- The museum is less than ten minutes walk from Leicester train station.
A bold live art piece by Annabel Guérédrat and Henri Tauliaut or ArtIncidene. The pair present a new version of their piece, Nu Descendant L’Escalier (Nude Descending A Staircase).
About
The Martiniquais duo, Guérédrat, a dancer and choreographer, and Tauliaut, a visual artist, have been engaged in a creative partnership since 2015 when they presented the first iteration of the piece. Inspired by the title and controversial side of Marcel Duchamp’s painting Nu Descendant Un Escalier (1912), the pair’s ever-evolving work occupies as space where dance meets visual art.
Through an Afro-Punk lens, the artists have cultivated a hybrid clothing style which sits between carnival and queer (meaning, literally, “bizarre”), both gothic and sexy at the same time. Through visuals and movement, their audacious and transgressive work seeks to create an affirmation of representing oneself as we want to in this world.
