Last April, a gay elder I didn’t know died of cancer. His far-away cousin hoped I’d accompany him as a doula in his final days. Neglected and abused in his nursing home, he had no nearby family or visitors… Read more
TOM RUBNITZ 1955-1992 Tom’s memorial was at The Kitchen and Lady Bunny was the celebrant. There was nothing not beautiful about it: lots of performances, a showing of Tom’s films which were so fucking funny, Bunny complaining the whole… Read more
Excerpt from Living Archives and Caregiving: An Interview with Janet Werther, Part 1 The Center for the Humanities, CUNY | November 01, 2016 Release Techniques & the AIDS Body Jordan Lord: You’ve been able to construct an understanding of… Read more
The Lost and Found Platform curatorial team partnered with StoryCorps to record five 40-minute interviews on August 15, 2016, a blisteringly hot day, at Storycorps’s StoryBooth in Foley Square. The following five pairs interviewed each other: Muna Tseng and Nicky… Read more
by Alex Fialho For the concluding number of Darrell Jones’ moving performance for the Platform 2016: Lost and Found event on October 15th, Conversation Without Walls, Roberta Flack’s sensational voice rose over the audience in her supple tone singing… Read more
Danspace Project curatorial fellow Jaime Shearn Coan shares his Platform 2016: Lost & Found Recommended Reading List below: Poetry Powell, D. A. REPAST: TEA, LUNCH, AND COCKTAILS. Graywolf Press, 2014. Teare, Brian. Pleasure. Boise: Ahsahta Press, 2010. Print. Myles, Eileen. Not Me. New… Read more
Platform 2016: Lost & Found co-curator Will Rawls shares his Recommended Reading List below: Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, Samuel Delany This Will Have Been (exhibition catalogue), Helen Molesworth ed. General Idea: Haute Culture, A Retrospective (exhibition catalogue) The… Read more
As a child of the 90s, advertisements for the musical RENT lined 42nd Street in bright colors and decaying letters. It made its Broadway debut in 1996, during the turning point for HIV medications and the Giuliani crackdown that gentrified… Read more
The morning I boarded the train from Oslo the sky was a threatening grey. As I walked the 20 minutes along the highway from Skoppum, where the train stopped, to Borre, I bargained with the sky. I figured all I… Read more
Excerpt from Jaime Shearn Coan in Conversation with Mariana Valencia critical correspondence | September 23, 2016 JSC: [W]orking with archives is so crucial (and I am by no means the first to say so!). They are these time capsules… Read more