Adam Linder

Dancer: Adam Linder
Dancer: Frances Chiaverini
Writer: Catherine Damman
Writer: Sarah Lehrer Graiwer

Choreographer and Dancer Adam Linder’s “Choreographic Services” (2013-ongoing) are a series of works, hired on a per-hour basis, that underwrite real-time and economic principles of choreographic activity. The new commission Some Riding will be hired for a series of performances, 8-13 September, for the ICA’s Upper Galleries.

Linder takes the significance for contextualisation in contemporary art production as his starting point. Two specially commissioned texts by writers Catherine Damman and Sarah Lehrer Graiwer will examine ideas of ‘choreographic embodiment’ and 'economies of performance' ? the touchstones for Linder's Services. Having memorised these texts, Linder and dancer Frances Chiaverini will orate them whilst choreographically riding the flow of the language, enacting the written context and simultaneously providing the performative dynamics for Some Riding.

Adam Linder (b. 1983) lives and works in Berlin. Recent Stage Works include “Vexed Vista”, premiered at Les Subsistances, Lyon (2015); “Parade”, premiered at HAU 3, Berlin (2013); and “Cult to the Built on What”, premiered at Kampnagel Hamburg (2013). Recent “Choreographic Services” include Some Proximity, Choreographic Service No. 2, Frieze Art Fair, London, subsequently hired by Museum Sztuki Warsaw (2015); and Some Cleaning, Choreographic Service No. 1, featured in the group show “Effi B”, Silberkuppe, Berlin (2014), subsequently hired by Museum of Arts and Design, New York (2014); FLEX - Hoffman Collection Berlin (2014); Kunsthalle Basel (2014); CCA Wattis, San Francisco (2015); and The Lulennial: A Slight Gestuary, Lulu, Mexico City (2015). The film Parade, an adaptation of Linder's stage work directed by Shahryar Nashat premiered at The Berlin Biennale (2014); further screened at ICA, London (2014) and The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2014).

Supported by the Goethe-Institut London