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
Sally This should be it. Maybe the piece of writing I did yesterday I’ve enclosed, and that really says it all. In rehearsal. a wonderful, blessed, and lucky time. When all of a sudden I thought that it was possible,… Read more
These two mixes gather sonic traces of the AIDS crisis, club scenes, communities of color and queer experience over the last several decades. Clocking in at 5+ hours of music, it’s still very incomplete. Loosely organized generationally, Part I reflects… Read more
Alexis Moh presents video clips from Platform 2016: Lost & Found, updated weekly.
Alexis Moh presents video clips from Platform 2016: Lost & Found, updated weekly.
Invitation to contribute to the Danspace Project Archive and Journal The Platform 2016: Lost and Found catalogue features a section, “Memory Palace,” inspired by a technique of memory recall often used by ancient Greek poets. By committing a location to memory, a… Read more