John Toth / Video, Animation

INTERMEDIA ART	Holly Fairbank and John Toth dance choreography / media installation
	The Nurse's Back: Apparitions on a Landscape
Godwin-Ternbach Museum *Dali Today: Dance and Beyond* Spring 2010 Fairbank / Toth Proposal - still from installation Gala / Dali slideshow	Holly Fairbank (choreographer/dancer) and John Toth (sculptor/digital artist) collaborate on a performance-installation piece we call a “BOOK” “The Nurses' Back; Apparitions on a Landscape” (working title) inspired by Salvador Dali. Using fabric as pages of a life-size “book” to create places for video and photography projection and illuminations, Toth’s sets provide a space within which Fairbank has opportunity to interplay with her own image as well as classical images and familiar everyday objects to examine an interior mind-scape much as Salvador Dali alluded to in many of his surrealist paintings. Within the context of “Dali Today: Dance and Beyond” the performance installation extends the artifacts from Dali’s archives into a live extension of his vision some 70 years later. Fairbank and Toth are intrigued with ambiguous, distorted images of the body and the possibilities of amorphous images that emerge between the interplay of 2 dimensional virtual dream-like media images layered onto a 3 dimensions performance installation space. The performance unfolds like dream through subliminal layering of media onto the partial and disguised view of the dancers body. The dialogue between virtual images and iconic dance postures suggests an imagery that carves out new kinds of meaning that extend the modern narrative into the multi-dimensional space of a shared virtual dream .
About 3 in the Morning, (Hang), video 364 x 200, 4:16. Holly Fairbank and John Toth
8 Hours Later, (John Cage), video 364 x 200, 2010, 4:00. Holly Fairbank and John Toth small video 396 x 240 dali_cage8c.mov
16 Years Before, "Etre Dieu", video 364 x 200, 5:41. Holly Fairbank and John Toth EtreDieu01.mp3
In Spring: The Nurse's Back, "Fountain of Tears", video 364 x 200, 7:33. Holly Fairbank and John Toth
Mysterious Mouth Appearing in the Back of My Nurse, 1941 gouache on paper, - 44.7 x 30.3 cm, Madrid, Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Gift of Dalí to the Spanish State
Set Installation: 60" x 45" x 15" with three hinged panels. Mylar, PVC tubing, tricot fabric. He places and weights bodies in space-they float but they have gravity to assert themselves - be muscular and push against surface - they are not ethereal -the body seems very vital in his cosmology - flesh and the things that sustain it.	Key ideas: forced perspective lines horizon line clouds, sea and Mts.. still landscape sounds-birds. wind, whisper diaphanous fabric,... props...fish, knife, lobster, grapes, clocks, eggs, grasshoppers (he was horrified by them) themes of female form...nurse, emblematic, Gala/Madonna, grotesque weight/placement
	Dali Motifs: horizon lines wooden crutch windows,portals, frames cabinet with drawers open "dreamlike stillness" fish breasts eggs clocks female torsos peoples backs rectangles landscapes teeth mountains in background blue and beige pedestals partial bodies horses double image "the floating state still motion (still life fast motion" women's faces gazing sex. food, light John Cage piece is The Perilous Night-played by Margaret Leng Tan and with some singing from Joan la Barbarahope Holly: On Friday, January 15, 2010 10:06 AM
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