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The Dream of the Audience

Retrofitting A Mysterious Mundane by maura nguyễn donohue

August 10, 2022

maura nguyễn donohue is the Writer-in-Residence for Platform 2021: The Dream of the Audience and Platform 2022: The Dream of the Audience (Part II). Her reflections on the Platform 2022 performances and events will be posted, accumulatively here, in Issue 14 of the Danspace Project… Read more

고래사냥 Whale seeking and loving in my darkness by Gyun Hur

August 10, 2022

A sepia-colored photograph of a wave crashing shoreline frames an overlaid image in the center, it is the same image colored differently in white, charcoal, and blue hues. Onto the photo, a pen drawing of mayfield brooks (dancing in Sensoria: An Opera Strange) is walking across the rocky shore with their arms outstretched and their hair hanging in front of their face.

Danspace Project invited interdisciplinary artist and educator, Gyun Hur to attend the Platform 2022 performances and respond. The following piece is the last of 3 offerings from Hur, in response to the Platform, and includes words, images, and poetics prompted… Read more

Common Union: The Dream of the Audience (Part II) by maura nguyễn donohue

August 2, 2022

An Asian American woman, in a black sparkle dress, is on stage in purple/blue lights. She looks out at an audience mid-sentence, while holding a mircophone and wearing a headdress made of aluminum can ribbon tendrils, flouresecent green tentacles, and reclaimed plastics. Her makeup looks like black branches, tentacles or snakes growing from the corners of her eyes.

maura nguyễn donohue is the Writer-in-Residence for Platform 2021: The Dream of the Audience and Platform 2022: The Dream of the Audience (Part II). Her reflections on the Platform 2022 performances will be posted, accumulatively here, in Issue 14… Read more

Video Postcard #2: Platform 2022: The Dream of the Audience (Part II)

July 21, 2022

Videographer and editor lex moh presents the second of two video “Post Cards” from Platform 2022. Post Card #2 features video clips and photos from mayfield brooks’, Sensoria: An Opera Strange, the Platform opening event, “Conversations Without Walls: The… Read more

Sensoria: a zine by mayfield brooks and duskin drum

June 9, 2022

A mixed media artwork on white deckled watercolor paper, in the mediums of watercolor, pencil, butterfly pea flower tea, watercolor pencil, colored pencil, china marker, ink. A vertical composition centered on a periwinkle border with a bottom text that reads “A poem by Mayfield Brooks. Illustrations by Caedron Burchfield” A geometric-abstract oceanscape, with a distinct horizon line in blue and white, that bisects the the piece just below center. Across the top, hand stamped black capital letters read, “Whale Fall”. The text is bookended with two circles- a white moon on the left, a sulphuric neon yellow sun on the right. A grey wash of sky is blotted with puddles of black gradients. The sky is arced by a neon orange crescent, at the center of which is a red triangle pointing upright with a line across it. Below the horizon line in the sea is a wash of ocean blue gradients with a neon blue triangle at the center pointing down above a simplified drawing of a piano keyboard in black and white. On the horizon there are four interlocking circles at their radii like a compass, in gradient washes of butterfly pea flower tea- a grayish purple color. On the east-west axis it forms a vesica piscis, the center of which creates a mandorla, an almond like shape and a symbol of the whale. Half is black and the other white. Red outlined triangles frame the foreground and evoke cliff like beaches. Ovals to the bottom left and right are filled in with primary neon colors on the left, and gradient shades of butterfly pea flower tea on the right

Sensoria is a zine by mayfield brooks made in collaboration with designer and contributing writer, duskin drum. This zine is a companion piece to mayfield brook’s live performance Sensoria: An Opera Strange (June 9-11), presented by Danspace Project as… Read more

Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener: RETROFIT: a new age

May 20, 2022

In the sanctuary of St. Mark’s Church, Silas wears a blue tie died jumpsuit and green sneakers. He carries Morgan who is wearing a pale yellow tie died jumpsuit, holding her by the small of her back and thigh as her torso spills over his legs, one of her hands traces the ground and the other rests on her forehead in a dramatized anguish, her black braids also sweep the blonde wood floor. In the background there is a blue bucket, an orange electrical cord, and Savannah dances behind them.

April 28 – April 30, 2022 Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener premiered their performance installation, RETROFIT: a new age at Danspace Project as a part of Platform 2022: The Dream of the Audience. Over four hours each day, the duo… Read more

Dear Audience, Are You Listening? An Introduction (Excerpt) by Judy Hussie-Taylor

May 5, 2022

Catalogue cover: On a beige background, The Dream of the Audience, Platform 2021-2022, Danspace Project. In the center is a photograph of an art object, a cluster of knotted hair-ties adorned with colorful plastic balls.

“Dear Audience, Are You Listening? An Introduction” serves as an introduction for the Danspace Project published catalogue, Platform 2021-2022: The Dream of the Audience. This essay has been edited and condensed for the purpose of this Online Journal post. The… Read more

Welcome to issue 14: The Dream of the Audience (Part II)

May 5, 2022

Sitting on a black background is an art object, a cluster of knotted hair-ties adorned with colorful plastic balls.

Welcome to Danspace Project’s Online Journal, issue 14: The Dream of the Audience (Part II), dedicated to Danspace Project’s Platform 2022. Issue #14 will focus on Platform lines of inquiry, artists research and writing, and feature Platform catalogue excerpts,… Read more

still closely related: reflecting on The Dream of The Audience by Maura Nguyen Donohue

August 4, 2021

A spray painted abstract design. Many eye-like or fish-like shapes superimposed over each other. Colors are white, black, green, and brown.

Maura Nguyen Donohue is the Writer-in-Residence for Platform 2021: The Dream of the Audience. In this final essay, Maura Nguyen Donohue reflects on Danspace Project’s Platform 2021: The Dream of the Audience. Read and/or listen below. Danspace Project · still… Read more

Reggie from on high by Maura Nguyen Donohue

August 4, 2021

Four green and purple tomatoes growing on the vine.

Maura Nguyen Donohue is the Writer-in-Residence for Platform 2021: The Dream of the Audience. “Reggie from on high,” an essay by Maura Nguyen Donohue, reflects on Come and Go ‘Piece a ‘Way, a new short film by Reggie Wilson, created in… Read more