As we gear up for the Lost & Found Platform this October & November, curators Ishmael Houston-Jones and Will Rawls offer some key texts that have informed their research. Platform 2016: Lost & Found co-curator Ishmael Houston-Jones shares his Recommended Reading List below:

David Gere, How to Make Dances in an Epidemic: Tracking Choreography in the Age of AIDS

Sarah Schulman, The Gentrification of the Mind

DUETS: Stephen Andrews & Gregg Bordowitz in Conversation

Karen Finley, A Different Kind of Intimacy

Jose Munoz, Cruising Utopia

Holly Brubach, Girlfriend: Men, Women, and Drag

C.Carr, On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century

Dona Ann McAdams, Caught in the Act: A Look at Contemporary Multi-Media Performance

Patti Smith, Just Kids