Critical Correspondence
Dance and the Museum: Samara Davis Responds
I am most interested in the politics of venue–how a work settles into a space, acknowledges it or doesn’t, and how a space supports a particular artwork. What can be done in a space or on a stage? Sometimes I find that the weight of a venue flattens or hugs a work too tightly. I […]
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- 12.28.13
Dance and the Museum: Sarah Maxfield Responds
Performance and visual art have a long and winding relationship. The current trend of visual art institutions presenting performance isn’t exactly new territory, but it is noteworthy, and it has been raising some concerns in the performance field. Unlike most visual art curation (particularly of works by now-dead artists), one cannot curate performance in a […]
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- 12.12.13
Dance and the Museum: Martin Nachbar Responds
1) What are the most potent questions prompted by the recent coming together of dance and the visual arts? Why don’t visual artists seem to trust the performative power of the objects they traditionally make and feel the need to extend their practices towards this performative moment? Why do dancers and choreographers seem to feel […]
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- 12.12.13
Dance and the Museum: Yvonne Rainer Responds
1) What are the most potent questions/ ideas prompted by the recent coming together of dance and the visual arts? Ethics and economics, to begin with. When my work is performed in a dance venue by another dance company, I am paid royalties. Why do the art museums not conform to this standard? They pay […]
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- 12.8.13
Dance and the Museum: More than Incidental Choreographies by Danielle Goldman
On September 28, 2013, Danspace Project hosted its latest Conversations Without Walls, a series of panel discussions co-curated by Danspace Scholar-in-Residence Jenn Joy and Executive Director Judy Hussie-Taylor. This particular conversation provided an opportunity to reflect on Ralph Lemon’s Some sweet day–a recent three-week performance series at MoMA–as well as the broader convergences between dance […]
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- 12.8.13
Dance and the Museum: Alexis Clements Responds
1) What are the most potent questions prompted by the recent coming together of dance and the visual arts? Dance and the visual arts, of course, have a relationship that has goes back much farther than the past decade or so. Early examples come up throughout RoseLee Golderg’s volume Performance Art, for instance—from Italian Futurist […]
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- 12.6.13
