Diachronic Map of the East Village
February 15, 2016

Over the course of PLATFORM 2016: A Body in Places, Eiko will perform solos for small audiences at various locations throughout the East Village. While scouting for sites and looking into the history of various buildings in the E.V., we… Read more
Oh, the Places You Will Go!!
February 15, 2016

by Svetlana Kitto Ten years ago, my friend Tiffany and I drove across the country to move to NYC. We picked up a Dodge Sprinter in Downtown Los Angeles that needed to be driven to the East Coast, packed all… Read more
A Body in Places: Video Postcard #1
February 15, 2016
Alexis Moh presents video clips from Eiko’s solos, updated weekly. Video Postcard #1: camera by Ben Grinberg.
Recommended Reading for Platform 2016: A Body in Places
February 15, 2016

Join us on Thursday evenings at 7pm during PLATFORM 2016 for Eiko’s Book Club, with readings by Allen Ginsberg, Kyoko Hayashi, Michiko Ishimure, Kenzaburo Oe, Ango Sakaguchi, C.D. Wright, and Eiko herself. February 25: Post-War Tokyo March 3: Hiroshima and Nagasaki March 10: Minamata and… Read more
Simone Forti: on Robert Whitman’s “American Moon”
February 15, 2016

On December 11, 2015 I accompanied Simone Forti to the site of the former Reuben Gallery, known for its Happenings series—beginning with Kaprow’s 18 Happenings in 6 Parts (1959). Forti was the only woman artist ever presented as part of… Read more
Platform 2016 Writer-in-Residence Sam Miller
February 15, 2016

Sam Miller is the founder and Director of the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance (ICPP) at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. He has also served as the President of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), President of Leveraging Investments… Read more
Platform 2016 Writer-in-Residence Svetlana Kitto
February 15, 2016

Svetlana Kitto is a writer, teacher and oral historian. Her fiction, articles and interviews have been featured in Salon, VICE, Art21, Plenitude Magazine, OutHistory, Surface, Queen Mobs Teahouse and the New York Observer among other publications, and the books Occupy… Read more
Become a Fellow Traveler of PLATFORM 2016
January 21, 2016

As a Fellow Traveler you will be part of a valuable circle of participants who, by contributing $150, will enjoy a special set of benefits designed to bring you closer to Eiko’s solo performances, movement practice and ideas through photographs,… Read more
Jaime Shearn Coan: on Laurie Berg’s “The Mineralogy of Objects”
January 11, 2016

Berg’s cast consists of four female dancers (including herself) and Tanya. This corresponds to the four figures in Joseph Cornell’s box, Variétés de Minéralogie Object (1939), labeled (in translation) “greenish; reddish; blackish; Cleopatra-ish” along with the cut-out image, which appears as… Read more