Lost & Found: Video Postcard #7
November 22, 2016
Alexis Moh presents video clips from Platform 2016: Lost & Found, updated weekly.
Alexis Moh presents video clips from Platform 2016: Lost & Found, updated weekly.
by Judy Hussie-Taylor Danspace Project Executive Director and 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,… Read more
by Alex Fialho In February 2016, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) released its first ever projective study of lifetime risk for contracting HIV among specific populations, including a deeply troubling estimate: the study predicted that one in two… Read more
Alexis Moh presents video clips from Platform 2016: Lost & Found, updated weekly.
DO YOU REMEMBER ARNIE? When photographer/choreographer/dancer Arnie Zane died of AIDS-related Lymphoma in 1988 at the age of 39, I was a relatively new member to the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane & Company. Arnie never stopped choreographing. He created… Read more
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
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
An Oral History with David Yarritu 10/15/2016 In the eighties, the Pyramid Club became an off-center playhouse for a small community of queers and artists who weren’t interested in the mainstream gay and drag scenes. At the East Village club, an intimate group of artmakers, friends,… Read more