Isadora

Event Info

Date	10.19.18
Format	Exhibition
Medium	Painting Sculpture
Admission	Free

Involved

Event artist	Susan Finlay
Presented by	Unlisted Projects
Funded by	Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department
Associated Program	Unlisted Projects

'by Susan Finlay

The word 'salon' originate from seventeenth century France, and can refer either to a reception, an assembly of guests, a hall displaying art, or an establishment offering a specific service most usually relating to fashion.

The name 'Isadora' - short for Isadora Duncan - elicits all of the above, plus dancing. Plus the classical world re-imagined through a then modern, European-American, lens. Plus Aleister Crowley, Sylvia Plath, Ken Russell and what they believe that she, as an idea, symbolizes.

The salon Isadora is an exhibition, or installation, or environment, created by Susan Finlay at MoHA, Austin. It comprises of painting, jewelry, cocktail cigarettes and chiffon scarves arranged as if something else will then occur. Likewise, the accompanying events programme is also intended to function as a commentary on this 'Classical European' sensibility regardless of the actual nationalities, or geographical locations of those involved.

Week One consists of artists' films, or filmed documentation of performances that relate to dance, fashion and classical antiquities. Week Two, of printed texts produced in respose to the exhibition's themes. Week Three, of Specially commissioned audio works that will play alongside a kinetic (dancing) sculpture.

Susan Finlay

Susan Finlay is a British artist and writer based in Germany. Current and forthcoming projects include The Brexit Chronicles, an audio series for Akerman Daly; Our Lady of Everything, a novel with Serpent's Tail, and Ver Sacrum, an exhibition at Hopscotch Reading Room, Berlin.