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
On March 7th, after a morning of conversation between award-winning scholars and artists Saidiya Hartman, Simone Leigh, and Okwui Okpokwasili, the Voice & Body research fellows led the public in an afternoon of shared practice. Artist/Composer Samita Sinha led a vocal… Read more
Legacy Russell is a Platform 2020 Writer in Residence The question of the riot is that it seeks to preserve nothing [2]. —Saidiya Hartman Slowness is a (re)negotiation of spatial desire, a wrestling and (re)definition of time. It is a… Read more
On the opening day of PLATFORM 2020: Utterances From The Chorus, Chilean born interdisciplinary artist, author, and poet Cecilia Vicuña offered a poetic performance that called on every person in the room to participate. She ended her offering with these… Read more
Poet Asiya Wadud was part of the Danspace Project Voice & Body research group in 2019-2020 and a Platform 2020 Writer in Residence.
This compilation is a small selection of sources that have informed the Platform 2020 research process. These recommendations have been shared through conversations between Okwui Okpokwasili and Judy Hussie-Taylor, the Danspace Project staff, members of the Platform 2020 Research Groups,… Read more
Dancer, Writer, and Curator, Benedict Nguyen was part of the Danspace Project Voice & Body research group in 2019-2020. I have this thing where I listen to the same song(s) on repeat for weeks, the same few albums… Read more
On March 26th, we at Danspace Project planned a conversation via Zoom between Platform 2020 co-curator and artist, Okwui Okpokwasili with scholar, Saidiya Hartman, multi-media artist, Simone Leigh, and Black feminist theorist of visual culture and contemporary art, Tina… Read more
On February 29th as a part of Platform 2020: Utterances From The Chorus, the Kin & Care Research Group shared both collective and independent research with the public in the Sanctuary of St. Mark’s Church, home to Danspace Project. As a part… Read more
Poet Asiya Wadud was part of the Danspace Project Voice & Body research group in 2019-2020 and a Platform 2020 Writer in Residence.
sam’s song was first performed on the occasion of Sam Miller’s memorial on September 15, 2018. We share this song today, on the anniversary of Sam’s passing, in his honor. Please listen and read the lyrics, below: day pulls down the… Read more
This adapted piece of writing first appeared as an introduction to the collective terrain/s publication, edited by Lydia Bell, Jasmine Hearn, and Tatyana Tenenbaum and published by Danspace Project in April 2019. The year-long collective terrain/s project organized by… Read more
It is bittersweet to post Lydia Bell’s 2019 essay “Ways of Gathering” as she prepares to leave Danspace Project on April 30th. This was a decision she made some time ago, well before the quarantine and our decision, on… Read more
day pulls down the sky full album is now streaming on Google Play, Spotify, Amazon, Apple, and Tidal. day pulls down the sky words by Samuel R. Delany and David Wojnarowicz song by Okwui Okpokwasili piano by Peter Born… Read more
Poet Asiya Wadud was part of the Danspace Project Voice & Body research group in 2019-2020 and a Platform 2020 Writer in Residence.
day pulls down the sky full album is now streaming on Google Play, Spotify, Amazon, Apple, and Tidal. radio words and song by Okwui Okpokwasili You hear the radio buzz? Radiation and broken glass I am like those broken… Read more
This excerpted text, written by Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born, was first published, in full, in the Platform 2020 Catalogue, Utterances From The Chorus, Vol. I. It describes the surrounding research and questions of Okwui Okwpokwasili and Peter Born’s… Read more
day pulls down the sky full album is now streaming on Google Play, Spotify, Amazon, Apple, and Tidal. get a hold song by Okwui Okpokwasili gotta get a hold of me thought I had a hold of me gotta… Read more
Capitalism, Vampires, Unrest was written by Angie Pittman in conversation with the Platform 2020 Kin & Care Research Group before the COVID-19 pandemic escalated in the U.S. and New York City. Through the frame of the 1998 Sci-Fi cult classic,… Read more
Poet Asiya Wadud was part of the Danspace Project Voice & Body research group in 2019-2020 and a Platform 2020 Writer in Residence. Note From Asiya Wadud: This essay is written in conversation with the many voices from The… Read more
day pulls down the sky full album is now streaming on Google Play, Spotify, Amazon, Apple, and Tidal. follow me words, song and music by Okwui Okpokwasili I ask you to follow me Follow me, follow me, follow me… Read more
What does it mean to weave a collective song? How do we vibrate and move together? What is possible when we hum, utter, and gesture together? How does the process of collaborative participation forge a transformational… Read more
On March 13th, Platform 2020: Utterances From The Chorus came to an abrupt halt at the onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Although we are deeply saddened to end the Platform events, the health and safety of the artists, staff,… Read more
day pulls down the sky full album is now streaming on Google Play, Spotify, Amazon, Apple, and Tidal. binding song words and song by Okwui Okpokwasili music by Peter Born I can go for days Don’t tell… Read more
As an inquiry-based extension of Platform 2020: Utterances From The Chorus, Danspace invited individual artists to be part of two artists Research Groups that have been meeting regularly over the last nine months with group facilitator, Seta Morton. They… Read more
In (Part I) of Listening to “How to Catalogue a Crisis: An Afterward to Lost and Found: Dance, HIV/AIDS, New York, Then and Now (2016)” : Jaime Shearn Coan, iele paloumpis, and Samantha the robot screen reader , Jaime Shearn… Read more
What you are listening to/might listen to is a recording of a screen reader reading, “How to Catalogue a Crisis: An Afterward to Lost and Found: Dance, HIV/AIDS, New York, Then and Now (2016),” an essay Jaime Shearn Coan… Read more
“What if our strength lies in our instinct to wind together and swell in a chorus, each of us a tone in a chord vibrating with the past and as yet imagined futures.” —Okwui Okpokwasili Upon taking the… Read more
Listen: of wishing and superheroes words by Okwui Okpokwasili song by Okwui Okpokwasili and Umechi Born day pulls down the sky was initiated by Danspace Project’s Executive Director and Chief Curator, Judy Hussie-Taylor, who brought the idea of a recording to… Read more