What protections should adorn a body in resistance? What kinds of care? How have somatic practices of the Black diaspora been colonized? Organized protest calls choreographies into action. An estimated 15,000 New Yorkers gathered on Sunday, June 14th, 2020,… Read more
Sitting On a Man’s Head is a practice and an installation by Okwui Okwpokwasili and Peter Born. This work was the centerpiece of the Danspace Project PLATFORM 2020: Utterances From The Chorus, co-curated by Okpokwasili and Judy Hussie-Taylor. Sitting On A Man’s Head,… Read more
Danspace Project stands in solidarity with Black Lives Matter. Danspace’s staff and community is grieving incalculable losses of BIPOC who have died at the hands of police—these deaths include Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, Tony McDade, Nina Pop, Derrick Scott, and… Read more
On March 7th, after a morning of conversation between award-winning scholars and artists Saidiya Hartman, Simone Leigh, and Okwui Okpokwasili, the Voice & Body research fellows led the public in an afternoon of shared practice. Artist/Composer Samita Sinha led a vocal… Read more
Legacy Russell is a Platform 2020 Writer in Residence The question of the riot is that it seeks to preserve nothing [2]. —Saidiya Hartman Slowness is a (re)negotiation of spatial desire, a wrestling and (re)definition of time. It is a… Read more
On the opening day of PLATFORM 2020: Utterances From The Chorus, Chilean born interdisciplinary artist, author, and poet Cecilia Vicuña offered a poetic performance that called on every person in the room to participate. She ended her offering with these… Read more
Poet Asiya Wadud was part of the Danspace Project Voice & Body research group in 2019-2020 and a Platform 2020 Writer in Residence.
This compilation is a small selection of sources that have informed the Platform 2020 research process. These recommendations have been shared through conversations between Okwui Okpokwasili and Judy Hussie-Taylor, the Danspace Project staff, members of the Platform 2020 Research Groups,… Read more
Dancer, Writer, and Curator, Benedict Nguyen was part of the Danspace Project Voice & Body research group in 2019-2020. I have this thing where I listen to the same song(s) on repeat for weeks, the same few albums… Read more
On March 26th, we at Danspace Project planned a conversation via Zoom between Platform 2020 co-curator and artist, Okwui Okpokwasili with scholar, Saidiya Hartman, multi-media artist, Simone Leigh, and Black feminist theorist of visual culture and contemporary art, Tina… Read more