Since 2010, with the launch of Danspace’s Platform series, we have developed various programs for collaborative inquiry with guest artist-curators, choreographers, curatorial fellows, writers-in-residence, scholars, and artists across disciplines. In the spirit of collective research Danspace continues this fall… Read more

  Maura Nguyen Donohue is the Writer-in-Residence for Platform 2021: The Dream of the Audience.  “in the absence of presence: returning”  by Maura Nguyen Donohue reflects on returning, a new short film from Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born commissioned for Platform… Read more

Closed captions are available by clicking the “CC” button on the video. Sitting On a Man’s Head is a practice and an installation by Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born. This work was the centerpiece of the Danspace Project PLATFORM 2020: Utterances From… Read more

  Platform 2021: The Dream of the Audience (May 15 – June 18, 2021), curated by Judy Hussie-Taylor, is a digital Platform featuring acclaimed artists and past Platform curators, each with longstanding relationships to Danspace Project: Ishmael Houston-Jones, Okwui Okpokwasili, Eiko Otake with Joan Jonas,… Read more

  ALTOSTRATUS: AN ALLEGORY is a video work by performance maker Okwui Okpokwasili with collaborating artist, Peter Born.   ALTOSTRATUS CLOUDS ARE GREY OR BLUE GREY. THE SUN OR MOON MAY SHINE THROUGH THESE CLOUDS BUT IT’S SIGNALING THAT A… Read more

  Sitting On a Man’s Head is a practice and an installation by Okwui Okwpokwasili and Peter Born. This work was the centerpiece of the Danspace Project PLATFORM 2020: Utterances From The Chorus, co-curated by Okpokwasili and Judy Hussie-Taylor. Sitting On A Man’s Head,… Read more

  day pulls down the sky full album is now streaming on Google Play, Spotify, Amazon, Apple, and Tidal.   day pulls down the sky words by Samuel R. Delany and David Wojnarowicz song by Okwui Okpokwasili piano by Peter Born… Read more

  day pulls down the sky full album is now streaming on Google Play, Spotify, Amazon, Apple, and Tidal.   radio words and song by Okwui Okpokwasili You hear the radio buzz? Radiation and broken glass I am like those broken… Read more

  This excerpted text, written by Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born, was first published, in full, in the Platform 2020 Catalogue, Utterances From The Chorus, Vol. I.  It describes the surrounding research and questions of Okwui Okwpokwasili and Peter Born’s… Read more

  day pulls down the sky full album is now streaming on Google Play, Spotify, Amazon, Apple, and Tidal.   get a hold song by Okwui Okpokwasili gotta get a hold of me thought I had a hold of me gotta… Read more