Issue 14 – Danspace Project

Spring 2022

Journal:
Issue 14 | The Dream of the Audience (Part II)

decomposing with mayfield brooks in “Sensoria: An Opera Strange” by maura nguyễn donohue these ties constitute what we are: iele paloumpis’ “in place of catastrophe, a clear night sky” by maura nguyễn donohue “I know exactly what you mean” A Community of the Curious with Ogemdi Ude by maura nguyễn donohue 고래사냥 Whale seeking and loving in my darkness by Gyun Hur Retrofitting A Mysterious Mundane by maura nguyễn donohue Common Union: The Dream of the Audience (Part II) by maura nguyễn donohue Video Postcard #2: Platform 2022: The Dream of the Audience (Part II) 달 장 dal jang : counting tombs for thirty days by Gyun Hur 한 옴큼 han omkeum by Gyun Hur Video Post Card #1: Platform 2022: The Dream of the Audience (Part II) Sensoria: a zine by mayfield brooks and duskin drum Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener: RETROFIT: a new age Finding the Right Dance: Ogemdi Ude in Conversation with Selah V. Hampton (An Excerpt) Dear Audience, Are You Listening? An Introduction (Excerpt) by Judy Hussie-Taylor PLATFORM 2022 Schedule of Events Welcome to issue 14: The Dream of the Audience (Part II)

Audio & Text, Platform 2022, Writer in Residence

In a darkly lit church, mayfield's larger than life shadow is cast on the arched and embellished walls of the altar. Their head is tilted back and their braids fall behind them. The altar steps are covered in a mysterious, black, shiny material.

decomposing with mayfield brooks in “Sensoria: An Opera Strange” by maura nguyễn donohue

maura nguyễn donohue is the Writer-in-Residence for Platform 2021: The Dream of the Audience and Platform 2022: The Dream of the Audience (Part II). Her reflections on the Platform 2022 performances and events are posted, accumulatively here, in Issue 14 of the Danspace Project Online Journal.… Read more

Audio & Text, Platform 2022, Writer in Residence

iele paloumpis descends the altar steps backward, with their left arm extended with the palm facing forward, and the right hand holding their white cane. The altar steps are draped with a burlap fabric that has been partially embroidered and there are woven ropes, burlap roses, and other objects adorning the veiled steps.

these ties constitute what we are: iele paloumpis’ “in place of catastrophe, a clear night sky” by maura nguyễn donohue

Audio & Text, Platform 2022, Writer in Residence

Three Black femme dancers with their backs turned, perform a synchronized and wide wingspan gesture, looking up over slightly lifted right shoulders. Infront of the dancers is a large industrial printer that has a long stream of paper extending out onto the blond wood floor of a stage, with lines of printed text covering the enormous page that reads: “OK so I found a squirrel in my backyard found a squirrel yeah there, OK so I found a squirrel in my backyard found a squirrel yeah there”

“I know exactly what you mean” A Community of the Curious with Ogemdi Ude by maura nguyễn donohue

Platform 2022, Visual Artist-in-Residence

A sepia-colored photograph of a wave crashing shoreline frames an overlaid image in the center, it is the same image colored differently in white, charcoal, and blue hues. Onto the photo, a pen drawing of mayfield brooks (dancing in Sensoria: An Opera Strange) is walking across the rocky shore with their arms outstretched and their hair hanging in front of their face.

고래사냥 Whale seeking and loving in my darkness by Gyun Hur

Danspace Project invited interdisciplinary artist and educator, Gyun Hur to attend the Platform 2022 performances and respond. The following piece is the last of 3 offerings from Hur, in response to the Platform, and includes words, images, and poetics prompted… Read more

Platform 2022, Writer in Residence

Retrofitting A Mysterious Mundane by maura nguyễn donohue

maura nguyễn donohue is the Writer-in-Residence for Platform 2021: The Dream of the Audience and Platform 2022: The Dream of the Audience (Part II). Her reflections on the Platform 2022 performances and events will be posted, accumulatively here, in Issue 14 of the Danspace Project… Read more

Platform 2022, Writer in Residence

An Asian American woman, in a black sparkle dress, is on stage in purple/blue lights. She looks out at an audience mid-sentence, while holding a mircophone and wearing a headdress made of aluminum can ribbon tendrils, flouresecent green tentacles, and reclaimed plastics. Her makeup looks like black branches, tentacles or snakes growing from the corners of her eyes.

Common Union: The Dream of the Audience (Part II) by maura nguyễn donohue

maura nguyễn donohue is the Writer-in-Residence for Platform 2021: The Dream of the Audience and Platform 2022: The Dream of the Audience (Part II). Her reflections on the Platform 2022 performances will be posted, accumulatively here, in Issue 14… Read more

Video

Video Postcard #2: Platform 2022: The Dream of the Audience (Part II)

Videographer and editor lex moh presents the second of two video “Post Cards” from Platform 2022. Post Card #2 features video clips and photos from mayfield brooks’, Sensoria: An Opera Strange, the Platform opening event, “Conversations Without Walls: The… Read more

Platform 2022, Visual Artist-in-Residence

달 장 dal jang : counting tombs for thirty days by Gyun Hur

Danspace Project invited interdisciplinary artist and an educator, Gyun Hur to attend the Platform 2022 performances and respond. The following piece is 2 of 3 offerings in response to the Platform and includes words, images, and poetics prompted by… Read more

Platform 2022, Visual Artist-in-Residence

An overexposed black and white photo of a group of people crouching along the edge of a body of water. Layered over the photo are illegibly scribed pen ink notes and drawings of small shapes and objects. The center of the composition looks like the inside bind of a black notepad, as if scanned from the inside of a book.

한 옴큼 han omkeum by Gyun Hur

Danspace Project invited interdisciplinary artist and an educator, Gyun Hur to attend the Platform 2022 performances and events and to share her responses. The following piece is 1 of 3 offerings in response to the Platform and includes words,… Read more

Video

Video Post Card #1: Platform 2022: The Dream of the Audience (Part II)

Videographer and editor lex moh presents 1 of 2 video “Post Cards” from Platform 2022. Post Card #1 features video clips and photos from the Platform opening event, Conversation Without Walls: The Dream of the Artist, iele paloumpis’ In… Read more

Platform 2022

A mixed media artwork on white deckled watercolor paper, in the mediums of watercolor, pencil, butterfly pea flower tea, watercolor pencil, colored pencil, china marker, ink. A vertical composition centered on a periwinkle border with a bottom text that reads “A poem by Mayfield Brooks. Illustrations by Caedron Burchfield” A geometric-abstract oceanscape, with a distinct horizon line in blue and white, that bisects the the piece just below center. Across the top, hand stamped black capital letters read, “Whale Fall”. The text is bookended with two circles- a white moon on the left, a sulphuric neon yellow sun on the right. A grey wash of sky is blotted with puddles of black gradients. The sky is arced by a neon orange crescent, at the center of which is a red triangle pointing upright with a line across it. Below the horizon line in the sea is a wash of ocean blue gradients with a neon blue triangle at the center pointing down above a simplified drawing of a piano keyboard in black and white. On the horizon there are four interlocking circles at their radii like a compass, in gradient washes of butterfly pea flower tea- a grayish purple color. On the east-west axis it forms a vesica piscis, the center of which creates a mandorla, an almond like shape and a symbol of the whale. Half is black and the other white. Red outlined triangles frame the foreground and evoke cliff like beaches. Ovals to the bottom left and right are filled in with primary neon colors on the left, and gradient shades of butterfly pea flower tea on the right

Sensoria: a zine by mayfield brooks and duskin drum

Sensoria is a zine by mayfield brooks made in collaboration with designer and contributing writer, duskin drum. This zine is a companion piece to mayfield brook’s live performance Sensoria: An Opera Strange (June 9-11), presented by Danspace Project as… Read more

Platform 2022

In the sanctuary of St. Mark’s Church, Silas wears a blue tie died jumpsuit and green sneakers. He carries Morgan who is wearing a pale yellow tie died jumpsuit, holding her by the small of her back and thigh as her torso spills over his legs, one of her hands traces the ground and the other rests on her forehead in a dramatized anguish, her black braids also sweep the blonde wood floor. In the background there is a blue bucket, an orange electrical cord, and Savannah dances behind them.

Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener: RETROFIT: a new age

April 28 – April 30, 2022 Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener premiered their performance installation, RETROFIT: a new age at Danspace Project as a part of Platform 2022: The Dream of the Audience. Over four hours each day, the duo… Read more

Catalogue

Two Black women are positioned on opposite ends of a church studio with a mic stand wrapped in braids stand in front of them. Their arms are extended out with knees bent and heads thrown back.

Finding the Right Dance: Ogemdi Ude in Conversation with Selah V. Hampton (An Excerpt)

Ogemdi Ude’s I know exactly what you mean premieres May 12-14 at Danspace Project as a part of Platform 2022: The Dream of the Audience (Part II). For the purpose of the Platform 2022 catalogue, Ude sat down to… Read more

A Note From The Chief Curator, Catalogue, Platform 2022

Catalogue cover: On a beige background, The Dream of the Audience, Platform 2021-2022, Danspace Project. In the center is a photograph of an art object, a cluster of knotted hair-ties adorned with colorful plastic balls.

Dear Audience, Are You Listening? An Introduction (Excerpt) by Judy Hussie-Taylor

“Dear Audience, Are You Listening? An Introduction” serves as an introduction for the Danspace Project published catalogue, Platform 2021-2022: The Dream of the Audience. This essay has been edited and condensed for the purpose of this Online Journal post. The… Read more

Schedule

A portrait of two men smiling on the beach. On the left, a white man with dark hair pulled back leans in, sunlight streaming across his face. to the right, a black man with short dark hair and freckles reaches forward to take the shot. iele takes a selfie on a ferry boat. iele is a white genderqueer person with dark curls and eyes. They wear a large fur-lined hood and wire-rimmed glasses, and look content with a subtle closed-mouth smile. Their lips are a bit rosy from the cool air. In the background, there is the East River and NY city skyline at sunset. The colors in the sky range from pale blue to light orange, with a couple of soft grey clouds. The water reflects the light from the sky in ripples. A dark skinned Black femme with a short afro is pictured in front of a grey concrete wall. Her arms are extended out past her side while she leans in the opposite direction.mayfield, in a dark theater wailing with their eyes closed, arm reaching above them, gripping the concrete wall behind them.

PLATFORM 2022 Schedule of Events

APRIL 23 Conversations Without Walls: The Dream of the Artist 12PM-1:30PM ET APRIL 28-30 Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener: RETROFIT: a new age Thursday, April 28, 4-8PM ET Friday, April 29, 4-8PM ET Saturday, April 30, 2-6PM ET … Read more

Note from the Editor, Platform 2022

Sitting on a black background is an art object, a cluster of knotted hair-ties adorned with colorful plastic balls.

Welcome to issue 14: The Dream of the Audience (Part II)

Welcome to Danspace Project’s Online Journal, issue 14: The Dream of the Audience (Part II), dedicated to Danspace Project’s Platform 2022. Issue #14 will focus on Platform lines of inquiry, artists research and writing, and feature Platform catalogue excerpts,… Read more