Chris Schlichting in conversation with Danspace Executive Director Judy Hussie-Taylor, from 2011′s Body Madness Platform catalogue: On ‘body madness’: “I pursue behavior of the body that cracks outside of my accepted daily conventional behavior, exploring the secret lives in the body… Read more

My most significant artistic influence(s) is/are: Miyako Yokoshi, my mother who has never seen my work. She was a haiku poet. Her sense of space and likings for simplicity and complexity influenced me as an artist. I realized this after… Read more

The video for ZERO ONE features three Japanese performance artists: Hangman Takuzo, Mika Kurosawa and Namiko Kawamura. 67-year old Hangman Takuzo lives in Tokyo. Over the past 14 years, he has been presenting a “garden theater” at his house. In… 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