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

  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

  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

  In 2014 we had the pleasure of commissioning and presenting, along with PS122’s COIL Festival, Okwui Okpokwasili’s Bronx Gothic. The work garnered a 2014 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award for Outstanding Production and subsequently embarked on an international tour. We’re… Read more