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Huddle

A work made of 200-degree multiplex hologram.

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  • A work made of 200-degree multiplex hologram.

Date:

1975–78

Artist:

Simone Forti
American, born Italy, 1935

About this artwork

In the 1970s Simone Forti began collaborating with holographer Lloyd G. Cross to create moving, threedimensional holographic versions of several of her dance pieces. Here this 200-degree hologram both documents and performs anew her signature dance construction Huddle, which was first performed in 1961.

In Huddle, several participants link limbs to form a tight group and take turns climbing across the top of the mass and descending to rejoin the cluster. In her choreography, writing, video, and holograms, Forti was instrumental in inserting dance improvisation into postwar art. Responsive to each viewer’s perception and movements, her holograms have a layered and complex relationship to spectatorship.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Contemporary Art

Artist

Simone Forti

Title

Huddle

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1978

Medium

200-degree multiplex hologram

Dimensions

144.2 × 50.8 × 50.8 cm (56 3/4 × 20 × 20 in.)

Credit Line

Contemporary Art Purchase Fund

Reference Number

2018.276a-b

Extended information about this artwork

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