My most central influence is my daily experiences and the people around me: my family, my friends, my students, and the performers/collaborators I work with all play a significant role in how I think about my life and my work.… Read more

“Once upon a time, long, long, ago…(the late seventies?), David Gordon was invited to give a concert at St. Mark’s and asked me to join him.  At the time we would have begun to rehearse, my father became ill and… Read more

I regularly consume a pretty hefty amount of visual art. I often think about my work as an accumulating succession of static images and objects. How my eye lands on a good painting, sculpture, or photograph usually translates in my… Read more

#tbt to November 2011 and Gerard & Kelly’s Reusable Parts/Endless Love at Danspace Project.  As the artists described the piece, “[This work] began when Gerard & Kelly encountered an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum of Kiss, an artwork by Tino… Read more

1. Antony Gormley, TRAJECTORY FIELD, 2001 – 2003 2. SimCity When I was a boy, I was obsessed with maps. I would happily stare at them for hours and study the contours of the various islands, cities and coasts that my finger could trace while… Read more

“I overheard Wanda on a sunny day in Washington Square Park in 1980.  A pretty brown teenage girl wearing a sweater.  Sitting on a bench recounting a story to another young girl, similarly dressed.  I was seated next to them… Read more

Sneak Peek: images by Ian Douglas of Luis Lara Malvacías/3rd Class Citizen’s (T). This “post-conceptual dance” draws on Malvacías’s interest in multiplicity as a starting and end point, triggering unpredictable results. Performances run this Thursday-Saturday at Danspace Project

Costumes by Miodrag Guberinic in Act I of Yanira Castro/a canary torsi’s Court/Garden, running this Thursday – Saturday (Oct 9-11) at Danspace.

“Every passion, ultimately, has its spectator…(there is) no amorous oblation without a final theater.” – Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse 1: Perception  Robert Irwin’s “Black Line Volume.” This influence is a fiction. “Black Line Volume” was created in 1975 at the… Read more

“Vito Acconci’s Theme Song changed everything for me. His awkward desire and direct communication with the camera; that the camera stands in for this huge vacancy – it is lover, it is mirror, it is other. I know a lot of video artists tap… Read more