Watch PLAYSCAPE: Woolmark Finalists' Collection Reveal Film Directed By FKA Twigs

FKA twigs’ collective ‘Avant Garden’ launches its new era in film for the 2022 International Woolmark Prize in special partnership with the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum. Inspired by the famed landscape artist and architect’s vision of play as a creative catalyst, PLAYSCAPE merges influence from fashion, art, dance, and music. 

Choreographed by classically trained dancer Juliano Nunes, the film opens with an empty gallery of Noguchi’s play sculptures, which becomes populated by a diverse ensemble cast of characters. In the second part, the cast enters an imaginary landscape, where a ballet sensibility is combined with elements drawn from hip hop, modernism, contemporary dance and punk aesthetics. With creative direction by Zak Group, the short film showcases the merino wool looks from the International Woolmark Prize finalists Ahluwalia, EGONLAB, Jordan Dalah, MMUSOMAXWELL, Peter Do, RUI, and Saul Nash.

Director: FKA twigs⁠
Creative Direction: Zak Group⁠
Choreographer: Juliano Nunes⁠
Production Company: Object & Animal⁠
Producer: Jen Gelin⁠
DOP: Rina Yang⁠
Stylist: Matthew Josephs⁠
Still Photographer: Jules Moskovtchenko⁠
Edit: Dave Davis & Trim Editing⁠
Colourist: Luke Morrison⁠
Post: Electric Theatre Collective
Casting: HUXLEY⁠
Featuring: kiddysmile, Princess Julia, Kai Isaiah Jamal, Alex Thirkle, Dmitri Gruzdev, Ève-Marie Dalcourt, Hannah Raynor, Meschach Henry, Salomé Pressac, Tania Dimbelolo, and maycie⁠

The Finalists

Ahluwalia

EGONLAB

Jordan Dalah

MMUSOMAXWELL

Peter Do

RUI

Saul Nash

Appalachian Spring: Rare Performance of Martha Graham's Iconic Masterwork Available Via Planet Classroom

Premiering in 1944 with an original score by Aaron Copland, set design by Isamu Noguchi, and costuming by Martha Graham.

Cast and Credits
DIRECTOR: Peter Glushanok
PRODUCER: Nathan Kroll
EDITOR: Eleanor Hamerow
CAST: Martha Graham as The Bride, Stuart Hodes as The Husbandman, Bertram Ross as The Preacher, Matt Turney as The Pioneering Woman, and Miriam Cole, Helen McGehee, Ethel Winter, and Yuriko as The Followers.

Tom Sachs "Tea Ceremony" @ The Noguchi Museum in New York

Tom Sachs "Tea Ceremony" centers on an immersive environment representing Sachs’ distinctive reworking of chanoyu, or traditional Japanese tea ceremony—including the myriad elements essential to that intensely ritualistic universe. Among the large stone sculptures by Isamu Noguchi in the Museum’s indoor/outdoor galleries, Sachs has set a tea house in a garden accessorized with variations on lanterns, gates, a wash basin, a plywood airplane lavatory, a koi pond, an ultra HD video wall with the sublime hyper-presence of Mt. Fuji, a bronze bonsai made of over 3,600 individually welded parts, and other objects of use and contemplation. Sachs has also produced a complete alternative material culture of Tea—from bowls and ladles, scroll paintings and vases, to a motorized tea whisk, a shot clock, and an electronic brazier. Supplementing the tea garden are three additional installations covering consummate examples of Sachs’ Tea tools, a brief history of Tea as it developed out of Sachs’ Space Program 2.0: MARS, and a small retrospective of the artist’s two decade–long career as a cultural hybridizer. Click here to apply to be a guest at Tom Sachs' next in-person Tea Ceremony. The exhibition will be on view until July 24, 2016 at the Isamu Noguchi Museum, 33rd Road (at Vernon Boulevard), Long Island City, NY