REVOLUTION

Sebring and Coco recreated Duchamp's famous abstract painting Nude Descending Staircase NU. 2, which premiered at the Armory show in New York City 100 years earlier in 1913. Sebring went directly to Duchamp’s inspiration, Eadweard Muybridge, an English photographer who in 1887 published a portfolio, with 781 plates comprising 20,000 of the photographs, that studied Animal Locomotion. An important sequence is of a nude woman descending a staircase. As it turns out Coco is the exact dimensions of the original model used by Muybridge!

Sebring’s modern reinterpretation of Muybridges’s classic process builds upon the work of Cubists and Futurists who sought to capture the motion of human figures in action through time. The work was manifested as large printed photographs, sculpture, interactive kiosks, and an epic 60 foot projection with original music score.