Mayonnaise Number 1, 1973-2010
Archival 16mm film transferred to digital video
colour, no sound
11:47
Mayonnaise Number 1 features the choreographer Douglas Dunn. In style and composition, the film is based on the Manet painting Boy with Cherries (1858). Dressed in classical clothing and toying with theatrical props and tropes such as red hats and bunches of grapes, Dunn languishes between poses. Casual and nonchalant, his performance looks at the notion of dance in its most minimal state- a state that clashes starkly with his ornate Renaissance-style dress. The film is in fact what Atlas refers to as the first of his ‘Face-Dances’- an experiment testing playfully what comprises a dance, which here takes the form of examining the affective charge of gesture and expression.
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