No Tomorrow

Ragnar Kjartansson
Year
2022
Material
six channel video installation
Size
duration: 29 min. 18 sec in collaboration with Margrét Bjarnadóttir and Bryce Dessner
Collection
2022.RK.04

No Tomorrow is the product of a collaboration between Ragnar Kjartansson, choreographer Bjarnadóttir and composer Dessner. Eight dancers strum acoustic guitars as they circle around, as if forming some ethereal, trans-lucent carousel of meticulously constructed choreographies. Any boundary between space and time seems to fade away as the music becomes the dance, and the dance, the music. The work incorporates a song based on excerpts from the 18th-century novella No Tomorrow by Vivant Denon and fragments from the work of the ancient Greek poet Sappho.