Critical Correspondence
Critical Correspondence: Dance and the Museum
In 2013, Critical Correspondence initiated a project dedicated to the examination of dance in the museum today–its politics, economics, and aesthetics. Acknowledging a long history of cross-pollination between dance and the visual arts–some driven by artists, some by institutions–our hope is to create a forum, based in a dance institution, for the voices of those […]
Lise Soskolne of W.A.G.E. in Conversation with Abigail Levine
This past winter I met with Lise Soskolne, core organizer for W.A.G.E. (Working Artists and the Greater Economy). W.A.G.E. is “a New York-based activist organization focused on regulating the payment of artist fees by nonprofit art institutions, and establishing a sustainable labor relation between artists and the institutions that subcontract their labor.” I got […]
Xavier Le Roy in Conversation with Will Rawls
Over the last twenty years, Xavier Le Roy has radically expanded the field of contemporary choreography, through solo and collective research-based practice. His diverse works question the limits of performance, exposing the conditions that govern artistic production in the theater. Increasingly, Le Roy has turned towards issues of addressing and engaging the public, and how […]
Charles Aubin in Conversation with Abigail Levine
Curator and performance scholar Charles Aubin discusses his work at Paris’s Centre Pompidou and New York’s Performa Biennial, focusing on the current interest in live art and performing arts curation, particularly within the context of visual art institutions. Aubin addresses the differences in curatorial strategies in a yearlong programming calendar versus a biennial, the funding […]
Colectivo A.M. Responds
In response to Critical Correspondence’s initial set of questions about the interaction of dance and the visual arts, Colectivo A.M. composed a round-robin diary based on the creation and performance of their 45 hour-long piece, Arrecife, presented over three weeks in August-September 2013 at the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (University Museum of Contemporary Art/ […]
Photo by Katie KischerDance and the Museum: Jaamil Olawale Kosoko Responds
1) What are the most potent questions/ ideas prompted by the recent coming together of dance and the visual arts? I hear artists asking questions about how their work can read as cinematic, how various kinds of relational experiences can co-exist between genres, what is the relationship between identity and abstraction and form, among many […]
Photo by Guy L'HeureuxDance and the Museum: Sara Wookey Responds
1) What are the most potent questions prompted by the recent coming together of dance and the visual arts? How does the socio-spatial context of the museum support the needs of dance? What can dance offer the visual arts? Where is the voice of the dancer? How might this “coming together” facilitate a shift in the dynamics […]
Dance and the Museum: Samara Davis Responds
I am most interested in the politics of venue–how a work settles into a space, acknowledges it or doesn’t, and how a space supports a particular artwork. What can be done in a space or on a stage? Sometimes I find that the weight of a venue flattens or hugs a work too tightly. I […]
Dance and the Museum: Sarah Maxfield Responds
Performance and visual art have a long and winding relationship. The current trend of visual art institutions presenting performance isn’t exactly new territory, but it is noteworthy, and it has been raising some concerns in the performance field. Unlike most visual art curation (particularly of works by now-dead artists), one cannot curate performance in a […]
Dance and the Museum: Martin Nachbar Responds
1) What are the most potent questions prompted by the recent coming together of dance and the visual arts? Why don’t visual artists seem to trust the performative power of the objects they traditionally make and feel the need to extend their practices towards this performative moment? Why do dancers and choreographers seem to feel […]
Jessie Gold and Sam Gordon in conversation with Alyssa Gersony
The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) held the second edition of its art fair – NADA New York – May 10th through May 12th at Pier 36, Basketball City, showcasing over 70 international visual art galleries, representing 13 countries. This year, amidst the traditional art fair model, NADA also hosted Contemporary Dancing under the curation and organization of Sam […]
