LUXEMBOURG.- Mudam Luxembourg - Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean launched its winter/spring artistic programme for 2019 with Full Service, a cycle of 5 choreographic works conceived for exhibition spaces by dancer and choreographer Adam Linder.

Mindful of contemporary art’s pluridisciplinarity, Mudam’s presentation of the five choreographic services follows on from the choreographic exhibition Work/Travail/Arbeid by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and her solo Violin Phase in the Grand Hall of the Mudam in 2018. Adam Linder: Full Service exemplifies Mudam’s ambition for the museum to be open to contemporary art in all its forms.

Alongside his stage works, Adam Linder has developed a parallel practice, which he calls choreographic services, designed and conceived for working with choreography outside of the theater context. In these five choreographic services, Linder’s material is the body, or more precisely: that body’s labor. They are a reflection on performance in relation to service-based economies. While none of these works are for sale, they still involve a transaction, with each hosting institution signing a contract that outlines the relationship between the performers (the dancers), the service they provide (the dance), and the cost of their labor (the dancing). The host “hires” the service and pays an hourly wage for it.

Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc has hired all five services, giving an overview of Adam Linder’s singular approach to dance and performance. Each one is presented over the course of four weeks, across one gallery. Each service is performed successively, but they also overlap in different combinations, creating new hybrids and juxtapositions of bodies and movements.

Adam Linder: Full Service is presented in collaboration with CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco

Adam Linder (*1983, Sydney, Australia) lives and works in Los Angeles. He has put together several stage works, including Kein Paradiso, which earned him the prestigious Mohn Award at the Hammer Museum’s Made in L.A. Biennale in 2016. His Choreographic Services were recently presented at Serralves Foundation, Porto (2018), South London Gallery, London (2018), Kunsthalle Basel (2017), Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin (2016) and the Institute of Contemporary Art in London (2015).