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SOPHIE CALLE IN TIMES SQUARE

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This month, VOIR LA MER—five video portraits by Sophie Calle, shot in Istanbul—will be on view nightly just before midnight on the electronic billboards above Times Square.

This presentation is part of the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) festival Crossing the Line, in conjunction with the FIAF retrospective Caroline Champetier: Shaping the Light. Champetier was Calle’s cinematographer for VOIR LA MER.

SOPHIE CALLE—MIDNIGHT MOMENT: VOIR LA MER, nightly, from 11:57 to midnight, through Tuesday, October 31.

TIMES SQUARE, Seventh Avenue and Broadway, between 42nd and 49th streets, New York City.

crossingthelinefestival.org/2017/events/voir-la-mer/

Sophie Calle, Voir la mer. Image credit: Caroline Champetier.

FAUSTIN LINYEKULA — NEW WORK

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Congolese dancer, choreographer, and writer Faustin Linyekula will present work on both coasts this month.

This weekend, as part of the FI:AF Crossing the Line Festival—co-presented with the Metropolitan Museum of Art—Linyekula’s site-specific BANATABA (NEW WORK) will receive its world premiere in New York City, where Linyekula will be accompanied by dancer Moya Michael.

Later this month, Linyekula will present his SUR LES TRACES DE DINOZORD (In Search of Dinozord) at NYU Skirball, and at Redcat in Los Angeles.

FAUSTIN LINYEKULA—BANATABA (NEW WORK), Saturday, September 9, at 2 pm and 7 pm. Sunday, September 10, at noon and 3:30 pm.

MET FIFTH AVENUE, Gallery 534, Vélez Blanco Patio, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York City.

metmuseum.org/events/programs/met-live-arts/faustin-linyekula

FAUSTIN LINYEKULA/STUDIOS KABAKO—SUR LES TRACES DE DINOZORD , Friday and Saturday, September 22 and 23, at 7:30 pm.

NYU SKIRBALL CENTER, 566 LaGuardia Place, New York City.

nyuskirball.org/events/faustin-linyekula/

See Brian Seibert, “Faustin Linyekula—Remember His Name (and Country and Past)”:

nytimes.com/2017/09/05/arts/dance/faustin-linyekula-crossing-the-line-congo.html?mcubz=1

Faustin Linyekula. Image credit: FI:AF.

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