Amanda Lorens

Close Embrace

Close embrace is a video and sound installatton set in the bandstand of the
Princess Pavillion Gardens. This work uses tango to explore ideas around the
physical and emotional language of non verbal communication.

Five looped DVD's on monitors with sound.

Amanda Lorens is an artist living in Cornwall. Her current work incorporates video, sound, installation and live art. She has exhibited extensively, nationally and internationally making work for both gallery and site-specific locations. She was a founding member of PALP (Penwith Artist Led Projects) co-curating and presenting site related art in unusual and temporary locations. She has engaged in international research in India, Australia, Italy Albania and South America. With video camera in hand much of her recent work has been inspired by her extensive travels, from filming laundry being washed on the banks of the River Ganges to Tango in the atmospheric dance halls of Buenos Aeries. Amanda has an ongoing interest in exploring the Tango within her work. She recently exhibited “Tango In Transit “ presented by In-Transit Mobile Art Projects as part of the Tract live art programme co-curated by Newlyn Art Gallery and Art Surgery. Tango In-Transit combined live dancers and a sound installation in the back of a large box van. For “Outsider” Amanda intends to further explore tango, combining video projections and sound in the bandstand at the Princess Pavilion. Bandstands in gardens are particularly relevant to tango as they are traditionally and currently being used all over the world to host Tango social dances on Sunday afternoons.