Critical Correspondence
Rebecca Brooks in conversation with Kathy Westwater
The Artist is Present by Marina Abramovic Thumbnail photo: Bianca Grimshaw Kathy Westwater: Maybe we can start with talking about the relationship between you and the public: how do you experience the public when you are a performer in Marina Abramovic’s work at the Museum of Modern Art and specifically through the piece that you […]
Michelle Boulé, Jeanine Durning, Alana Elmer, Catherine Legrand, Amelia Reeber, and Ros Warby in conversation with Rebecca Davis
If I Sing to You Download this interview as PDF It was suggested from the cast that the program notes for Deborah Hay’s If I Sing To You were included in this interview. They read as follows: The dancers have the option to appear in a male or female costume, and will decide (individually and without prior […]
Ann Liv Young in conversation with Christine Elmo
Christine Elmo: Let’s talk about Sherry. She seems to do lots of different performances. The other day I was watching Sherry and Naomi. Watching her, I really feel like she has a purpose. With Naomi, she is playing therapist. Ann Liv Young: For sure Christine: Preacher, a little bit. Ann Liv: I made her for […]
Isabel Lewis in conversation with Levi Gonzalez
Strange Action Levi Gonzalez: I’m talking with Isabel Lewis who just came back to New York yesterday for her show at PS122. We were just talking about New York and what’s hard about it. Isabel Lewis: What’s really hard about it. My distance from New York wasn’t so planned, but came in phases. As I […]
Robert Steijn in conversation with Daria Faïn
Robert and Maria Download this interview as PDF Thumbnail photo: Courtesy of Robert Steijn Daria Faïn: We are going to talk about Robert and Maria, at Danspace Project. Tonight is the last night. What is the essential experience for you performing this work, if there is one? Robert Steijn: The act of collaboration—how to be […]
John Jasperse in conversation with Jmy Leary
Truth, Revised Histories, Wishful Thinking and Flat Out Lies Download this interview as PDF Jmy Leary: So I wanted to have a nice intro. Shortly after I moved to New York, straight out of college from California, I saw your work at The Joyce’s Altogether Different Festival (2001): Waving to You from Here and another […]
Walter Dundervill in conversation with Jon Kinzel
Dear Emisary, … Listen to this interview Thumbnail photo: Walter Dundervill
Platform 2010: Back to NYC: Juliette Mapp in conversation with Jean Butler
This three-part interview series investigates the relationship between executive director, curator and artist in Danspace Project’s exciting new curatorial initiative, Platforms 2010. First off in the series, artist Jen Rosenblit describes the Platform as a holistic approach to curating artists—“I feel like Juliette dove into my experience of making this work. Even Judy, when she […]
Platform 2010: Back to NYC: Jen Rosenblit in conversation with Jean Butler
This three-part interview series investigates the relationship between executive director, curator and artist in Danspace Project’s exciting new curatorial initiative, Platforms 2010. First off in the series, artist Jen Rosenblit describes the Platform as a holistic approach to curating artists—“I feel like Juliette dove into my experience of making this work. Even Judy, when she […]
koosil-ja in conversation with Michael Portnoy (via SkypeText)
Download this conversation as PDF koosil-ja: Hello Michael! Michael Portnoy: Hello! How are you? koosil-ja: I am feeling okay. Downtown LA, Saturday, very quiet. Still fatigued from last night’s show, but feeling content. And beautifully sunny here. Michael: What is the show you’re doing there? koosil-ja: The Wooster Group’s North Atlantic presented at REDCAT. Michael: […]
Kathy Westwater in conversation with Ursula Eagly
PARK Download this interview as PDF Ursula Eagly: I am dying to ask you about the process that happens outside of the time that we spend together in the studio. I have this feeling that there’s a lot that goes on. Also, and I think this is perhaps related; your work is both deeply somatic […]
Meg Wolfe in conversation with Clarinda Mac Low
watch her (not know it now) Download this interview as PDF Thumbnail photo: Holly Wilder, courtesy of Performa Clarinda Mac Low: Here we are again! I’m fascinated by the title of your piece. watch her (not know it now). There’s so much going on in the title that I feel like it sets this strange […]
Juliana May in conversation with Tamar Rogoff
Download this interview as PDF Thumbnail photo: Steven Shreiber Tamar Rogoff: Where does your work spire from, or where does the first inkling of it land in your mind? Juliana: It starts from the body and from a social experience with my dancers. We’re a fairly tight-knit group. Some of them I’ve been working with […]
Sybil Kempson and Mike Iveson in conversation with Lucy Sexton
Crime or Emergency! Listen to this interview Download this interview as PDF Lucy Sexton: Mike and Sybil, you’re here at PS122 doing Crime or Emergency! I saw this piece in development in January 2008, almost two years ago, and I adored it at the time. Mike Iveson: Your feelings about it have plummeted since then. […]
Jeremy Wade in conversation with Mary Love Hodges
there is no end to more Listen to this conversation Mary Love Hodges: Hi Jeremy. Let’s get started… your new work, there is no end to more, focuses on Japanese “cute” culture and its underlying grotesque elements. Jeremy Wade: Correct.
