by Judy Hussie-Taylor Danspace Project Executive Director & Chief Curator While designing Danspace Project’s Platform series in 2008, I knew I wanted to work with artists as curators to formally frame relationships between artists of different generations. That’s where, I… Read more
A version of this chronology appears in Danspace Project’s gallery guide for SlowDancing/TrioA, a video installation by David Michalek in collaboration with Yvonne Rainer, held at Danspace Project over June 23 – July 1, 2017. In 2011, I… Read more
A project by Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener Danspace Project was invited by artist and MacArthur Foundation Fellowship recipient, Josiah McElheny, to participate in Madison Square Park Conservancy’s thirty-fourth exhibition, Prismatic Park. Danspace Executive Director & Chief Curator, Judy Hussie-Taylor, invited four… Read more
This essay appears in the Gallery Guide for SlowDancing/TrioA, a video installation by David Michalek in collaboration with Yvonne Rainer on view at Danspace Project June 23-July 1, 2017. More details here. The Useful Lies of Dance Mediation… Read more
A condensed version of this essay appears in the Gallery Guide for SlowDancing/TrioA, a video installation by David Michalek in collaboration with Yvonne Rainer on view at Danspace Project June 23-July 1, 2017. More details here. Creeping Trio… Read more
What web of connections do generations of artists trace? Who are their influences? Since 2012 we have explored artistic constellations and lineages by asking each artist to share a significant artistic influence. Stacy Matthew Spence responds to our prompt, My… Read more
Dear dear Judy, Every fleeting, unexpected, luminous movement brings Trisha to my heart and mind…. the birds at the feeder, the wind slamming the door, dust particles shining on the window. But most of all, some absurd conviction that our… Read more
Jose Clemente Orozco’s Hombre de Fuego: Last month I was in Guadalajara. I stood under the dome in Hospicio Cabanas, tracing circles under the painting by Orozco of a man engulfed in flames walking calmly across the sky. As I… Read more
What web of connections do generations of artists trace? Who are their influences? Since 2012 we have explored artistic constellations and lineages by asking each artist to share a significant artistic influence. Benjamin Kimitch responds to our prompt, My most significant… Read more
Originally commissioned by SFMOMA’s art and culture platform Open Space for Lost and Found: Bay Area Edition, curated by Open Space editor in chief Claudia La Rocco and inspired by Danspace Project’s Platform 2016: Lost & Found. Ishmael… Read more
In December 2016, Danspace Project and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)’s Department of Media and Performance Art collaborated on an unprecedented Research Residency with artist Simone Forti, on the occasion of MoMA’s acquisition of Forti’s Dance Constructions (1961).… Read more
In December 2016, Danspace Project and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)’s Department of Media and Performance Art collaborated on an unprecedented Research Residency with artist Simone Forti, on the occasion of MoMA’s acquisition of Forti’s Dance Constructions (1961). During the… Read more
In December 2016, Danspace Project and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)’s Department of Media and Performance Art collaborated on an unprecedented Research Residency with artist Simone Forti, on the occasion of MoMA’s acquisition of Forti’s Dance Constructions (1961).… Read more
In December 2016, Danspace Project and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)’s Department of Media and Performance Art collaborated on an unprecedented Research Residency with artist Simone Forti, on the occasion of MoMA’s acquisition of Forti’s Dance Constructions (1961).… Read more
Danspace Project’s Lost & Found Platform continues! Through our partnership with SFMOMA’s Open Space (organized by Claudia La Rocco), San Francisco’s CounterPulse will host a West Coast discussion and screening event on Saturday, February 4th from 2-6pm. “We are… Read more
What web of connections do generations of artists trace? Who are their influences? Since 2012 we have explored artistic constellations and lineages by asking each artist to share a significant artistic influence. Douglas Dunn writes in response to our prompt,… Read more
Graduate programs do not usually have students write briefly and fast. So Robert Hullot-Kentor, wise chair of the School of Visual Arts’ Critical Theory and the Arts department, suggested I take those CTA members stuck in New York over… Read more
In 2016, as part of our Platform 2016: A Body in Places, dedicated to the work of Eiko Otake, we presented a 24-hour event to mark the fifth anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan. Over… Read more