PERFORMING PAC. Dance Me To The End Of Love

From 11 July 2023 to 10 September 2023
Milan
Place: PAC - Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea
Address: Via Palestro 14
Times: 10 am–7:30 pm Thursday 10 am–10:30 pm Closed on Monday HOLIDAYS 9, 10 and 25 April 10 am–7:30 pm 1 May 10 am–7:30 pm 2 June 10 am–7:30 pm
Ticket price: Full price € 8,00 Special reduced price € 6,50 / € 4,00 Free children under the age of 6; disabled persons with 100% disability; one accompanying person per disabled person presenting a need; one accompanying person for each group; two accompanying persons for each school group; one accompanying person and one guide for each FAI or Touring Club group; employees of the Soprintendenza ai Beni Architettonici di Milano; journalists accredited by the press office; ICOM cardholders; Abbonamento Musei
Official site: http://www.pacmilano.it
For this new edition, we start with a rereading of Christian Boltanski's exhibition, 6 septembres, curated by Jean-Hubert Martin at the PAC in 2005. One of the main keys to interpreting Boltanski's work is precisely the analysis of the concept of "time", which inexorably flows and in which memory and remembrance become the signs, the traces, of man's fragile and unstable passage.
This year's title, Dance Me To The End Of Love, is a quotation from a song by Leonard Cohen from 1984, a song inspired by the drama of the Shoah. In an interview Cohen explained: 'The song came about by hearing the stories of survivors from the death camps. Next to the crematoria, in some concentration camps, a string quartet was forced to play while this horror unfolded. A horror that would also become the fate of the musicians themselves. They played when their comrades died'. But in the verses of the song, the drama seems to disappear in the salvific and peaceful mission of art as a vehicle of memory, capable of being stronger than any cruelty.
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