[New York, NY]
Danspace Project PLATFORM 2020 conversation: Platform as Practice - Collaborative Organizing
February 22, 2020, 12:00 pm
at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery
Saturday Afternoon Conversation #1: Platform as Practice: Collaborative Organizing.
Part of Danspace’s PLATFORM 2020: Utterances from the Chorus curated by Okwui Okpokwasili with Judy Hussie-Taylor. PLATFORM pursues their shared interest in creating containers for sharing artistic practices: “Could we create a Platform for artists to be in a conversation with one another and offer that to a broader audience?” The result is a program that will unfold over four weeks with multiple voices, artistic collaborations, and interdisciplinary juxtapositions. Together, Okpokwasili and Hussie-Taylor developed these lines of curatorial inquiry for the Platform:
How do we weave a collective song?
How can the voice and body be a site of resistance and transformation?
How can we share artistic practices – between artists and between artists and audiences?
The first conversation in this series, on collaborative organizing, features participants Lydia Bell, Maura Donohue, Judy Hussie-Taylor, Kristin Juarez, Seta Morton, Okwui Okpokwasili,Eva Yaa Asantewaa, and UDP authors Cecilia Vicuña and Asiya Wadud. Food installation by Spiral Theory Test Kitchen.