Yvonne Rainer Everything is a Performance
When
18 – 27 Oct 2024
Where
Gallery of Modern Art & Cinema A
Accessibility
- Wheelchair Accessible
Admission
Free
About
Yvonne Rainer (b. 1934) is an American dancer, choreographer and filmmaker. She is a pioneering figure of the avant garde movement, with her work crossing mediums in bold and experimental ways.
This program brings together the seven feature films that Rainer directed between 1972 and 1996. Her films blend archival footage, reconstructions, still photography and innovative audiovisual approaches to explore the personal and the political. They are spirited and vital works, brimming with droll humour and literary sophistication. Screening alongside these films is the impressionistic documentary Rainer Variations 2002, which explores Rainer’s life and work while playfully adopting her own stylistic techniques in its form.
Rainer's films have recently been restored in 4K by the Museum of Modern Art and the Celeste Bartos Fund for Film Preservation. Her work has earned her a MacArthur Fellowship, two Guggenheim Fellowships, and three Rockefeller Fellowships – establishing her as one of the key performance artists of the twentieth century.
Program curated by Robert Hughes, Australian Cinémathèque. Additional writing by Isabella Leung-Dias.
Upcoming
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Film About a Woman Who… 1974 M
- When 6.00 pm, Fri 18 Oct 2024 (104 mins)
- Where GOMA
- Admission Free
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Kristina Talking Pictures 1976 M
- When 8.15 pm, Fri 18 Oct 2024 (92 mins)
- Where GOMA
- Admission Free
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Privilege 1990 M
- When 12.45 pm, Sat 19 Oct 2024 (102 mins)
- Where GOMA
- Admission Free
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MURDER and Murder 1996 Ages 15+
- When 3.00 pm, Sat 19 Oct 2024 (112 mins)
- Where GOMA
- Admission Free
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Rainer Variations 2002 Ages 15+
- When 11.00 am, Sun 20 Oct 2024 (41 mins)
- Where GOMA
- Admission Free
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Lives of Performers 1972 Ages 15+
- When 12.45 pm, Sun 20 Oct 2024 (90 mins)
- Where GOMA
- Admission Free
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Journeys from Berlin/1971 1979 Ages 15+
- When 2.45 pm, Sun 20 Oct 2024 (125 mins)
- Where GOMA
- Admission Free
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The Man Who Envied Women 1985 Ages 15+
- When 6.00 pm, Wed 23 Oct 2024 (125 mins)
- Where GOMA
- Admission Free
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Lives of Performers 1972 Ages 15+
- When 8.30 pm, Wed 23 Oct 2024 (90 mins)
- Where GOMA
- Admission Free
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Film About a Woman Who… 1974 M
- When 6.00 pm, Fri 25 Oct 2024 (104 mins)
- Where GOMA
- Admission Free
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Kristina Talking Pictures 1976 M
- When 8.15 pm, Fri 25 Oct 2024 (92 mins)
- Where GOMA
- Admission Free
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Journeys from Berlin/1971 1979 Ages 15+
- When 12.30 pm, Sat 26 Oct 2024 (125 mins)
- Where GOMA
- Admission Free
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The Man Who Envied Women 1985 Ages 15+
- When 3.00 pm, Sat 26 Oct 2024 (125 mins)
- Where GOMA
- Admission Free
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Rainer Variations 2002 Ages 15+
- When 11.00 am, Sun 27 Oct 2024 (41 mins)
- Where GOMA
- Admission Free
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Privilege 1990 M
- When 12.45 pm, Sun 27 Oct 2024 (102 mins)
- Where GOMA
- Admission Free
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MURDER and Murder 1996 Ages 15+
- When 3.00 pm, Sun 27 Oct 2024 (112 mins)
- Where GOMA
- Admission Free