The LAB (for installation + performance art) presents Shopping For Life a performance piece by Kristina Skovby. This work is inspired by Conscious Consumerism, a social movement that is based around increased awareness of the impact of purchasing decisions on the environment and the consumers health and life in general. Skovby will use her body and a shopping cart to explore the relationship between societies wish to make ethical purchases as an expression of their moral choices, and their capitalist inclined desire to consume to excess, in the pursuit of happiness.

Kristina Skovby is a performance artist from Denmark and a former student of the Martha Graham School where she studied repertory with Pearl Lang. She recently finished in a production by InOktober at Here Arts Center in Manhattan, and is currently working with Nu Dance Theater on a site specific performance for the Botanical Garden on East 6th Street. Her own performance work has been presented at the LAB, Triskelion Arts Aldous Theater in Brooklyn, Gowanus Arts Building, The Brecht Forum, and Spinvox street events in NYC and San Francisco.

Previous Works:

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The LAB (for installation + performance art) is a New York based, converted storefront turned fishbowl producing 30+ fast paced performance art and installation exhibitions annually. Aimed at furious midtown foot traffic, The LAB’s programming is designed to confront modern relationships between art and audience and seeks to force interaction between high energy, “outrospective” exhibitions and nearly 25,000 daily passersby. THE LAB is located on the North East corner of 47th and Lex and is a Roger Smith Collaboration in Art. www.thelabgallery.com

For more information, please contact Danika Druttman at rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com or 212.339.2092

QUICK INFORMATION:
Shopping for Life, by Kristina Skovby
The LAB (for installation + performance art)
501 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017, 47th and Lexington
Subway: E, 6, V to 53rd and Lexington or 4, 5, 6, 7 to Grand Central
September 20-24th, 2010 at 6:30pm every evening
This event is free. The performance will take place within confinement of the enclosed space of the gallery, the audience will view the piece from the sidewalk outside the gallery.
212-339-2092
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She arrived in NY that year – almost 10 years ago – with her nine year old son, Antonio, in tow and moved in to the Roger Smith for a month.  During the festival, Elena sang and danced a few nights per week, with little Antonio attending each tablao and occasionally stepping out to dance a few moves or drum on the cajón…a crowd-pleasing foreshadow of the talent he would later develop!  When he wasn’t performing with his mom, he would cruise the hotel, a relative Eloise let loose in a new a fabulous place, full of interesting things and people.

Elena Andujar, born of a Sevillana and a New Yorker, uses flamenco to bridge the cultures that she represents.  Her work includes festivals, self-produced espectáculos, master classes and even early-stage plans to make a movie of her life story, set here and there.  Her bigscreen career began when she was cast in the movie Devil’s Advocate along with flamenco great, Tomatito, to perform with Al Pacino.

So…as we knock around the idea of reviving the Iberian Festival, we’d love to hear your feedback! Let us know your thoughts!

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