The Lost and Found Platform curatorial team partnered with StoryCorps to record five 40-minute interviews on August 15, 2016, a blisteringly hot day, at Storycorps’s StoryBooth in Foley Square. The following five pairs interviewed each other: Muna Tseng and Nicky… Read more

by Alex Fialho   For the concluding number of Darrell Jones’ moving performance for the Platform 2016: Lost and Found event on October 15th, Conversation Without Walls, Roberta Flack’s sensational voice rose over the audience in her supple tone singing… Read more

  An Oral History with David Yarritu 10/15/2016 In the eighties, the Pyramid Club became an off-center playhouse for a small community of queers and artists who weren’t interested in the mainstream gay and drag scenes. At the East Village club, an intimate group of artmakers, friends,… Read more

Danspace Project curatorial fellow Jaime Shearn Coan shares his Platform 2016: Lost & Found Recommended Reading List below:   Poetry Powell, D. A. REPAST: TEA, LUNCH, AND COCKTAILS. Graywolf Press, 2014. Teare, Brian. Pleasure. Boise: Ahsahta Press, 2010. Print. Myles, Eileen. Not Me. New… Read more

Platform 2016: Lost & Found co-curator Will Rawls shares his Recommended Reading List below:   Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, Samuel Delany This Will Have Been (exhibition catalogue), Helen Molesworth ed. General Idea: Haute Culture, A Retrospective (exhibition catalogue) The… Read more

As a child of the 90s, advertisements for the musical RENT lined 42nd Street in bright colors and decaying letters. It made its Broadway debut in 1996, during the turning point for HIV medications and the Giuliani crackdown that gentrified… Read more

The morning I boarded the train from Oslo the sky was a threatening grey. As I walked the 20 minutes along the highway from Skoppum, where the train stopped, to Borre, I bargained with the sky. I figured all I… Read more

Excerpt from Jaime Shearn Coan in Conversation with Mariana Valencia critical correspondence | September 23, 2016   JSC: [W]orking with archives is so crucial (and I am by no means the first to say so!). They are these time capsules… Read more

Sally This should be it. Maybe the piece of writing I did yesterday I’ve enclosed, and that really says it all. In rehearsal. a wonderful, blessed, and lucky time. When all of a sudden I thought that it was possible,… Read more

These two mixes gather sonic traces of the AIDS crisis, club scenes, communities of color and queer experience over the last several decades.  Clocking in at 5+ hours of music, it’s still very incomplete.  Loosely organized generationally, Part I reflects… Read more