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Fall 2020 Artist Research Group

October 5, 2020

A grid of six photos, each photo is of an artist research fellow: iele has short brown curls and wears rectangular framed glasses, they are in a garden and are holding an orange flower in front of their nose with a squinting grin. Angie has layered dark brown locks stopping at the top of her shoulders, her brown eyes are piercing as she looks directly forward at the camera and she is wearing a blue shirt hanging slightly off of one shoulder. Jaamil has a cleanly shaven head and is standing leaning slightly back with the back of his head resting in his palm, his body and an unknown large structure next to him are draped in bronze metallic fabric as he stands in front of a bright red background. Alice is a light-skinned, multi-racial Black woman with blonde, copper, and red striped curly hair and gazes towards the camera. She wears a black shirt; her face rests in the palm of her face, her elbow sits on her thigh, and a gold necklace gleams at her neck. devynn has short cropped straight brown hair and has eyes cast down at the camera with a slightly furrowed brow and a small hoop ring hanging from their septum, they are wearing a straw brimmed hat with a striped string looped loosely under their chin. Larissa has her face in the left side of the frame only and she has dark brown curls framing her face and she wears bright red lipstick.

This Fall, Artist Research Fellows devynn emory, Larissa Velez-Jackson, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, iele paloumpis, Angie Pittman, and Alice Sheppard are engaging in an in-depth dialogue with the Danspace Project curatorial team, Judy Hussie-Taylor, Benjamin Akio Kimitch, and Seta Morton.… Read more

Conversations Without Walls: Joan Jonas & Eiko Otake with Judy Hussie-Taylor

September 17, 2020

Closed captions are available by clicking the “CC” button on the video. A PDF transcript of the conversation is linked here. This conversation was recorded on May 21, 2020 and first broadcasted on YouTube Live Saturday, September 12, 2020. The… Read more

Conversations Without Walls: Ishmael Houston-Jones & Carol Mullins with Judy Hussie-Taylor

September 3, 2020

Closed captions are available by clicking the “CC” button on the video. A PDF transcript of the conversation is linked here. This conversation was recorded on May 19, 2020 and first broadcasted on YouTube Live Saturday, August 29, 2020 The… Read more

An Interview with Yves B. Golden

August 20, 2020

Yves turning hovering over her dj controller setup in a brightly lit industrial setting. She is wearing a highly textured corset top with purple velvet and slick black. She is wearing thin metal chains and rings, looking up as her hands are busy at work.

This interview with Artist and Organizer, Yves B. Golden was facilitated by Danspace Project Associate Curator, Seta Morton. Please listen to the audio interview above or download the PDF text transcription linked here. A tropical storm came… Read more

Reimagining Conversations Without Walls

August 14, 2020

Dilapidated wood or scaffolding in front of the tower of the St. Mark's Church

The 2020 Conversations Without Walls digital series launches with two pre-recorded conversations broadcasted on YouTube Live: Ishmael Houston-Jones and Carol Mullins on Saturday, August 29th at 12pm ET and Joan Jonas and Eiko Otake on Saturday, September 12th at… Read more

Petrichor by Yves B. Golden with Stephen Hill and Quenton Stuckey

July 24, 2020

Yves B. Golden is an artist whose work gleams at multiple intersections of media, including sculpture and embodiment, activism and curation, written word and sound, installation and performance. “She is inspired by the sacred bond that exists between memory… Read more

Resources During a Pandemic and Social Uprising

July 10, 2020

A white banner that reads Black Lives Matter is attached to a wrought iron gate that surrounds Saint Marks Church in the bowery.

Over the past few months, our staff has begun to collect and share important resources to information, mutual aid, and support for our community during this time of a global pandemic and the movement for Black lives and the resistance… Read more

trembling archive by Kristin Juarez

July 10, 2020

Kristin Juarez sitting and speaking into a microphone with a soft smile, looking over her shoulder at Seta sitting beside her.

Curator and research specialist, Kristin Juarez was the Curatorial Fellow at Danspace Project for the Reggie Wilson curated Platform 2018: Dancing Platform Praying Grounds: Blackness, Churches, and Downtown Dance and (for a brief but crucial time) in 2019 for Platform… Read more

Decolonizing Somatic Care Practice For The Body in Protest with día bùi and Orlando Zane Hunter Jr.

July 10, 2020

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 (Video)

June 23, 2020

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