Multiform(s)
Animating painting, drawing dance
As a love letter to perpetual motion and testament to body magic, Amanda Acorn built hypnotic cycles of movement repeated ad infinitum into her work multiform(s). The work was sketched live by visual artist Connor Willumsen.
As a love letter to perpetual motion and testament to body magic, Amanda Acorn built hypnotic cycles of movement repeated ad infinitum into her work multiform(s). Acorn is a Toronto-based choreographer who, for this project, draws from the work and writing of painter Mark Rothko. The work premiered in 2015 at SummerWorks Festival in Toronto and was performed in 2016 at FTA (Festival TransAmériques).
multiform(s) was sketched live by visual artist Connor Willumsen, whose work won him a fellowship at The Center for Cartoon Studies. His first widely published book, Anti-Gone, was a finalist for a LA Times Book Prize and Doug Wright Award and was recently adapted into a live mixed-reality performance by Theo Triantafyllidis. Willumsen’s newset book, Bradley of Him, was published in November 2019.