Solo Performance
D5 Live Arts Festival
Saint-Julien-Molin-Molette, France
Tel un papillon de nuit, nous retournons au système / Like moth, we return to the system
June 1, 2025
Approx. 90 min
A durational solo performance at the D5 Live Arts Festival which brought together dance, sound, and visual artists from several continents.
A site-responsive performance drawing and installation responding to the former silk factory, recognizing the moth—sometimes a symbol of transformation—as the oppressed subject of silk production.
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Group Exhibition
Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts
Beijing, China
Dancing in the Museum: Body and Choreography in the Museum Field
March 8 - April 21, 2024
Curated by Qiu Zhijie
Participating Artists:
Aimar Perez Gali, Andros Zins-Browne, Eva Mag, Tony Orrico, Jerome Bel, Maria Hassabi, Mohan Modisakeng, Senga Nengudi, Trisha Brown, William Forsyth, and Xavier Le Roy
Works:
Penwald: 2: 8 circles: 8 gestures (2009-)
Performance at MUAC, Mexico City, MX (2013)
Single-channel color video with sound, RT 21:09
Notable Performances:
Penwald: 2: 8 circles
(Flux/S at Strijp-S, Eindhoven, NL) 2010
Penwald: 2: 8 circles: 8 gestures
(Centre Pompidou, Metz, FR) 2013
Penwald: 2: 8 circles: 8 gestures
(MUAC, Mexico City, MX) 2013
Penwald: 2: 8 circles: 8 gestures
(Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. 25 panels) 2011
Penwald: 2: 8 circles: 8 gestures
(LP’11, CCCB, Barcelona, ES) 2011
Penwald: 2: 8 circles: 8 gestures
(National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC) 2010
Penwald: 4: unison symmetry standing (2010-)
Performance at RISK Scenekunst, Stavanger, Norway (2022)
Single-channel color video with sound, RT (TBD)
Notable Performances:
Penwald: 4: unison symmetry standing
(Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI) 2013
Penwald: 4: unison symmetry standing
(Helium Space, Chicago, IL) 2013
Penwald: 4: unison symmetry standing
(RISK Scenekunst, Stavanger, Norway) 2022
CROSSWAKE
Installation (2021)
Single-channel color video with sound, RT 31:39
Exhibition Tour
Contributing Artist
DIE NO DIE (The HighLine) by Matty Davis
Along the NYC High Line (Gansevoort Street to Spur at 30th Street)
April 30, May 1 & May 2, 2024 5:00-6:30p
Approx. 50 minutes
Co-commissioned by
High Line Art and Frieze New York
Presenting Artists:
Matty Davis, Chloé Cooper Jones, Nile Harris, Taylor Knight and Anna Thompson, Tony Orrico, Bryan Saner
Orrico set their solo choreography from first two renditions of Die No Die on the project creator, Matty Davis. An exhibition of the entire project, including images from Die No Die (Iowa City), spanned a 1000 square-foot wall at the entry of The Shed during the Frieze New York art fair. A 192-page, full-color publication of the project accompanied the performance and exhibition (ed. 1000).
Publication
Solo Exhibition
Galería La Cometa
Madrid, Spain
Tony Orrico: Fit Into the Imprint
May 11 - June 29, 2024
The exhibition, is Orrico's first show in Madrid, and is a brief compendium of three of his most emblematic series of work: Textiles, where he investigates the notion of a mental loom, creating tessellations from phrases derived from personal memories, handwritten in an ambidextrous and mirrored way, generating changing patterns that become a kind of mental trails; Penwald Drawings, a series of performative works that explore the symmetry and balance of the cerebral hemispheres, investigating the idea of reflection and bifurcation; Hand Movie, is a video work that pays tribute to Yvonne Reiner, an artist who has deeply influenced Orrico’s work. This is a multiplied and expanded reinterpretation of Reiner’s original work from 1966, where Orrico investigates the autonomy and agency of the hand in relation to the rest of the body and memory.
The conjunction of these works leads us to critically reflect on the interaction between the body, memory, oblivion and the construction of identities. The movement freezes in the lines of the drawing, which becomes a witness to the inquires of the artist’s memory. Like graphic cross-sections of a map of neural connections, mental concepts spread across the paper; They arrive, deviate, mutate and then stop in time.
Works:
Accelerated Image: Yvonne Rainer's Hand Movie (1966), 2014
Single-channel video, 12:00
Ed. ⅛
Standing Knobby Starfish, 2015
Sri Lankan graphite, starfish
15 x 11 x 6 inches (38.1 x 27.94 x 15.24 cm)
Penwald: 19: circle back to knees (La Cometa Madrid, ES) 2024
Performance, graphite on paper
Approx. 15 min
152.4 x 152.4 cm (60 x 60 inches)
Alluviated Listening 2, 2024
Shungite rock, graphite powder
Variable diemnsions
Textile: READ THE ROOM, 2024
Textile: DON'T FORCE A DAUGHTER, 2024
Graphite on paper
111.76 x 76.2 cm (44 x 30 inches)
Textile: CONVERSATIONAL BEND, 2023
Textile: OSCILLATING BETWEEN METAPHORS, 2023
Textile: LIP SKIN PEEL, 2023
Textile: I LOVE YOU THE WAY YOU ARE CHANGING, 2023
Textile: FIT INTO THE IMPRINT, 2023
Textile: SCAM ARTIST, 2023
Textile: OMNIPRESENT FRAMER, 2023
Textile: LOOKING FOR THE EXIT, 2023
Graphite on paper
111.76 x 76.2 cm (44 x 30 inches
Design
Links Hall
Chicago, IL
RIGHT HERE by Melinda Jean Myers
May 4 - 5, 2024
Concept and Direction: Melinda Jean Myers
Presenter: Lucky Plush Productions
Composer and Musician: Lex Leto
Set Design: Tony Orrico
Devised in Collaboration and Performance: Kara Brody, Kim Goldman, Isabella Limosnero, Jacinda Ratcliffe, Melinda Jean Myers, Meghann Wilkinson
Created in collaboration with Lucky Plush ensemble members and composer/musician Lex Leto, this dance-theater work explores how the body holds opposing states of motivation and apathy, abundance and loss, and hope and despair during a climate crisis. Through visual storytelling and shared choreographies, the ensemble seeks a roadmap for greater awareness and collective action.
