[New York, NY]
Danspace Project PLATFORM 2020 conversation: Voice & Body with Saidiya Hartman, Simone Leigh, Asiya Wadud & Okwui Okpokwasili
March 7, 2020, 11:00 am
at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery
Saturday Afternoon Conversation #3:Voice & Body.
Part of Danspace’s PLATFORM 2020: Utterances from the Chorus curated by Okwui Okpokwasili with Judy Hussie-Taylor 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 third conversation in this series, onVoice & Body, features participants Saidiya Hartman, Simone Leigh & Okwui Okpokwasili, Jasmine Hearn, Tendayi Kuumba, Benedict Nguyen, Samita Sinha, Tatyana Tenenbaum, Asiya Wadud.