Actress and sometime performance artist Tilda Swinton will stage a performance at the Guggenheim Bilbao next month.
Titled House of Gestures, the work is a collaboration between Swinton and fashion historian and curator Olivier Saillard. Commissioned by Dom Pérignon this year, the piece is being billed as “an original work conceived around gesture, presence, and transformation” with special attention to its setting in the museum’s atrium. The performance will be open to the public, who can register in advance on the museum’s website.
Staged on June 5 and June 6, House of Gestures is part of Dom Pérignon’s “Creation is an eternal journey” series, which the champagne producer has described as a “new creative chapter deeply rooted in its unwavering commitment to creation and its ongoing dialogue with iconic creators.”
Per a release, House of Gestures is “inspired by Dom Pérignon’s profound relationship with ‘place,’” which it connects to its spiritual home of the 7th-century Benedicte Abbey in Hautvillers, France. “The Hautvillers Abbey is the ‘place’ par excellence. A true ‘place’ is defined by the meeting of space and time,” the release reads. “Each of Dom Pérignon’s vintages is also at the crossroads of space and time.” The release adds that House of Gestures will allow “the audience to travel through space and time to release emotions.”
“With performance, we like to create a free zone where something honest and original can occur and become a shared experienced in real time,” Swinton said in a statement. “A great champagne has much in common with this idea. Both are rooted in space and authentic presence, not representation or interpretation.”
