Critical Correspondence
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/ […]
Dance and the Museum: Gustavo Ciriaco Responds
1) What are the most potent questions or ideas prompted by the recent coming together of dance and the visual arts? I like the terms you choose for this meeting of two different art fields: coming together. This already reveals a movement towards a shared place and at the same time the condition […]
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 […]
Dance and the Museum: Alexis Clements Responds
1) What are the most potent questions prompted by the recent coming together of dance and the visual arts? Dance and the visual arts, of course, have a relationship that has goes back much farther than the past decade or so. Early examples come up throughout RoseLee Golderg’s volume Performance Art, for instance—from Italian Futurist […]
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 […]
Diana Crum in conversation with Lindsey Drury
Choreographer/performer/teacher Diana Crum talks with dance maker/performance artist Lindsey Drury about creating new contexts for making and presenting work, “site specific” dance, non-sustainable economy, Diana’s “If I tell myself I have enough time, then I can be with you,” presented in September 2012 in Prospect Park, and creating performances that listen.
Maggie Bennett & Liliana Dirks-Goodman in conversation with Jeanine Durning
Choreographer/performance artist/dancer Jeanine Durning speaks with artist/designer Liliana Dirks-Goodman and dancer/choreographer Maggie Bennett about their collaboration at FACADE/FASAD. They discuss shifting perceptions of space and time, labor, value and compensation, desire, utopia, and the “practice of artistic practice.”
What Sustains You Justine Lynch?
What Sustains You? is a new video project that asks dance artists about money and sustainability. The idea sprung from several events, discussions and proposals addressing in one way or another a necessity to rethink the presenting and creating models. Some of these projects were Charlotte Gibbons’ 4U, Daria Faïn/Prosodic Body’s think tank on the creation of a Commons (both an artistic performance and a civil/justice-building project) and Justine Lynch’s Somatic Alchemy classes. These artists, it seemed to us, challenged traditional exchange contracts of art giving and receiving and blurred definitions of art, production, collaboration, healing, authorship, and more.
Performa 09: William Kentridge at Cedar Lake
by Karinne Keithley As this blogging group was forming, we corresponded about what a Movement Research-based writing group looking at Performa might do. One of the many ideas which came up, beyond the initial sense that we weren’t going to review, per se, and neither were we going to get oppositional about dance world and […]
