[nettime-lat] Lovett/Codagnone at NADA Art Fair

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PERFORMANCE by LOVETT/CODAGNONE 
For You 

 
The NADA Art Fair 2003:Miami Beach 
1691 Michigan Avenue, between 17th Street and Lincoln Road, Miami Beach 

Performance schedule: 
Thursday, December 4, 2pm 
Saturday, December 6, 6pm 
Sunday, December 7, 2pm 

Presented by PARTICIPANT INC and TRANS>area	


contact: LiaGang {AT} hotmail.com
contact:  trans {AT} transmag.org
www.transmag.org 


PARTICIPANT INC and TRANS >area are pleased to announce a live performance by 
Lovett/Codagnone, For You , at the NADA Art Fair 2003: Miami Beach. 

On a rotating round platform (like a music box) the artists are constrained in a 
pose derived from a Tango. They are wearing costumes typical of Tango dancers: 
white shirts and high-waisted black dress pants. Their arms and opposing legs 
are bound by elements of their costumes (the shirt ties), designed to force them 
to maintain the dance position. Their leading hands are held together by the 
joining of the artists' shirt cuffs with their cufflinks (see video). 
A special double-edged knife designed by the artists is used in the performance. 
The knife bears an inscription on each side, engraved with the title of the 
piece: FOR YOU. The knife is held simultaneously in the mouths of both artists 
for the duration of the performance, creating a tension between the artists 
while helping them maintain the pose from which the performance was inspired. 

Tango was traditionally danced by two men and often had a knife as part of the 
ritual. Jorge Luis Borges wrote about this tradition of tango in “Evaristo 
Carriego,” published in 1933. Libertango by Astor Piazzola mixed with a text by 
Jorge Luis Borges (translated text follows) about the nature of Tango is read in 
Spanish by curator and critic Octavio Zaya and constitutes the soundtrack for 
the performance. 

  
The erotic nature of tango has been perceived by many, not so its litigious 
temperament. It is true that they both are modes or manifestations of an 
identical impulse, and hence the word man, in all the languages I know, 
indicates sexual capacity and bellicose capacity at once, and the word virtus, 
which means courage in Latin, derives from vir, which is the male. Likewise, on 
one of Kim's pages an Afghan declares: “When I was fifteen, I had shot my man 
and begot my man,” as if the two acts were, essentially, one sole act .	
The 
Litigious tango, Jorge Luis Borges 


about the NADA Art Fair 2003:Miami Beach 
THE NADA ART FAIR 2003: Miami Beach, is a groundbreaking collaborative effort 
bringing together 40 top innovative contemporary art galleries and non-profit 
spaces from around the world. 

Thursday, Dec. 4 -- Sunday, Dec. 7, 2003: 1 pm – 8 pm 
1691 Michigan Avenue, between 17th Street and Lincoln Road 
contact www.newartdealers.org or email nadanyc {AT} hotmail.com. 

about PARTICIPANT INC 
PARTICIPANT INC is a not-for-profit alternative art space, dedicated to the 
presentation of artists' work in all mediums. 

about TRANS >area 
TRANS>area is a non-profit space in Chelsea, New York City. TRANS>area offers 
first solo exhibitions to artists. The program of TRANS>area is sponsored by The 
Andy Warhol Foundation. 
	 	 
 

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