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 […]
Dance and the Museum: Noemie Lafrance Responds
1) What are the most potent questions prompted by the recent coming together of dance and the visual arts? Dance artists and visual artists collaborate everyday based on affinity and need, just like artists of all disciplines also collaborate. Cinema for example, is a purely collaborative form, much like the performing arts, which generally […]
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 […]
Take-Out Performance: Minouk Lim in conversation with Jody Wood
Artist Jody Wood talks with video/performance artist Minouk Lim at a cafe near Minouk’s studio in Seoul, South Korea. “We are all born into a theatre. I even consider the womb to be a stage–a liquid theatre,” says Lim in their discussion of art, politics, and the notion of video as a “take-out performance.” Minouk Lim’s upcoming solo show at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis runs from May 31 – September 2, 2012.
