Harmony in 3 by Zlatko Ćosić
For the 2015 Kranzberg Exhibition Series, video artist Zlatko
Ćosić and
dancer and choreographer Ashley McQueen emphasize the labor that goes
into the manicured landscape at Laumeier Sculpture Park. Through a series
of dance performances in 2014 culminating in the short film Harmony in 3,
Ćosić and McQueen explore the Park’s unique relationship with St. Louis
County Parks, highlighting the joy and grit that goes into the care and
maintenance of our 105-acre landscape. Laumeier’s first “dance on camera”
project, the performances of the dancers and the workers in the film mark
our continued interest in representing a range of art forms in the Park that
encompass our mission to expand the boundaries of art and to embrace
the purpose of our landscape.
Dance is often seen as an art form constrained to the stage; however,
through this unique collaboration, the Park has provided a new stage for
dance. Based on the principle of movement, dance-like cinema began as
an art form centered on the human body, physical performance and
communication through action and image. The film combines techniques
of documentation and abstraction, pitting the real versus the performer
and presenting a narrative that brings to the foreground that which is often
overlooked. Harmony in 3 is a celebratory work, organized as a projected
triptych that ebbs and flows, shifting among imagery of the dancer, the
worker and the “nature” that is Laumeier Sculpture Park. With combing and
interlocking views of the micro and macro worlds of the Park, art and nature
are literally linked through the language of movement and the story behind
(and meaning of) this acreage. Within their collaboration, Ćosić and McQueen demonstrate the pervasive
affinities between these two mediums through the play on the sounds of
the environment, the dancer as movable kinetic sculpture and the worker
as architect and builder.
Directed by ZLATKO ĆOSIĆ
Art Direction: ZLATKO ĆOSIĆ and ASHLEY McQUEEN
Choreography: ASHLEY McQUEEN
Dancers:
ALEXA MOOR,
SARAH STARKWEATHER and
ELLEN VIERSE
Lawnmower Drivers/Performers:
DON GERLING,
YVETTE LUEDDE and
TOM SCHWEISS
Laumeier Sculpture Park and St. Louis County Staff:
SHARON BROWN, JOHN CORCORAN, PAT COTTER, GABE COTTON, RICH EDWARDS, DON GERLING, JOSH GERLING, TOM GRIFFIN, AJ, YVETTE LUEDDE, ANA MILLER, DAVE MILLER, BOB MORITZ, TARA MORTON, KAREN MULLEN, RICH NEAL, DAN SACHSENHEIMER, TOM SCHWEISS, BUD SPINDLER, ALEX STOKES, JENNA SUMMERS, JASON WHITE and GREG YORK
Camera and Sound:
ZLATKO ĆOSIĆ and
RACHEL ĆOSIĆ
Production Assistant:
RACHEL ĆOSIĆ
Music:
ALAN SCHILLING and
JESSE SCHILLING
Editing:
ZLATKO ĆOSIĆ
Produced by: EYE PRODUCTION
Special Thanks To:
RACHEL ĆOSIĆ,
DON GERLING, MARILU KNODE, Executive Director, Laumeier Sculpture Park, NANCY and KEN KRANZBERG, ASHLEY McQUEEN, DANA TURKOVIC,
Curator of Exhibitions, Laumeier Sculpture Park and all staff at ST. LOUIS COUNTY PARKS and LAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK
Funding for this exhibition has been provided by St. Louis County Parks, the Regional Arts Commission, the Missouri Arts Council, the Arts and Education Council of St. Louis, the Mark Twain Laumeier Endowment Fund, Nancy and Ken Kranzberg and the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
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Exhibition Catalogue [English] [Yugoslavian]
EXHIBITIONS and SCREENINGS
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Laumeier
Sculpture Park, 2015 Kranzberg Exhibition Series, Adam Aronson Fine Art Center,
St. Louis,
Oct. 15, 2015 - Feb. 14, 2016
:: COFFEE + CONVERSATION: Discussion with artist Zlatko Ćosić and Jesse Vogler, Landscape Architect and Assistant Professor,
Sam Fox School
of Design and Visual Art,
Oct. 17, 10:00 a.m.
:: ESPACIO ENTER, International Festival of Creativity, Innovation and Digital Culture, Digital Image, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, August 24-27, 2017
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ikonoTV, as part of POOL International Dance Film Festival, Berlin, Germany,
September 15-16, 2018
PRESS
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Video artist Zlatko Ćosić celebrates harmony, commemorates conflict in simultaneous exhibits by Áine O’Connor, St. Louis Public Radio/NPR, October 16, 2015
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Sounding the Bell: Zlatko Ćosić's "South Slavic Requiem" by Stefene Russell, St. Louis Magazine, September 17, 2015
:: Behind the Scenes of Harmony in 3, by Krista B. Grant, Arts and Education Council, November 2015
:: Interview with Zlatko Ćosić by Semilla Bland, ALL THE ART, December 2015
:: Harmony in 3 by Rob Levy, Riverfront Times, October 2015
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Makers of St. Louis by Krista B. Grant, Arts and Education Council, August 26, 2015
