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Lost and Found: Dance, New York, HIV/AIDS, Then and Now catalogue

A Body in Places: Eiko Otake catalogue

Dancing Platform Praying Grounds: Blackness, Churches, and Downtown Dance catalogue

Since 2010, Danspace Project has published catalogues as part of its series of artist-curated Platforms. The Platforms, “exhibitions that unfold over time,” contextualize contemporary dance and performance practices and histories.

 Platform 2016: Lost & Found, curated by Ishmael Houston-Jones and Will Rawls (October 6-November 19, 2016), examined the impact of AIDS on generations of artists. Catalogue contributors include: Penny Arcade, Marc Arthur, C.Carr, Douglas Crimp, Travis Chamberlain, DarkMatter, Nan Goldin, Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Neil Greenberg, Bill T. Jones, Deborah Jowitt, John Kelly, Theodore Kerr, Kia Labeija, Eileen Myles, Pamela Sneed, Sally Sommer, Sarah Schulman, Tseng Kwong Chi, and Muna Tseng.

 Platform 2016: A Body in Places, curated by Judy Hussie-Taylor and Lydia Bell in collaboration with Eiko Otake, ran February 17-March 23, 2016 with six weeks of performances and events illuminating and expanding upon Eiko’s solo project of the same name. Eiko started her first solo project by visiting Fukushima, Japan, where she danced at now desolate places with the witness of one photographer. Since then, Eiko has performed alone at train stations, libraries, houses, and vacant lots. Grappling with the particulars of a place and the gaze of each viewer. During the Platform, Eiko performed a solo daily at various locations in Danspace Project’s East Village neighborhood. The Platform included installations, a film series, a book club, conversations, performances by guest artists, and workshops. This catalogue includes a set of post cards of images of Eiko taken by William Johnston.

 Dancing Platform Praying Grounds: Blackness, Churches, and Downtown Dance, (February 28-March 24, 2018) was curated by Reggie Wilson. In the catalogue, historical research, personal testimony, original artwork, interviews, and historic photographs uncover the intersecting ways places of worship have shaped religious, African Diasporic, and postmodern dance practices over past centuries. Contributors include Lauren Bakst, Lydia Bell, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Stephen Facey, Keely Garfield, Judy Hussie-Taylor, Darrell Jones, Prathibha Kanakamedala, Kelly Kivland, Cynthia Oliver, Susan Osberg, Carl Paris, Same As Sister (Hilary Brown and Briana Brown-Tipley), Radhika Subramaniam, Kamau Ware, Ni’Ja Whitson, Tara Aisha Willis, Mabel O. Wilson, and Reggie Wilson. The catalogue, designed by Raja Feather Kelly, and edited by Lydia Bell, Kristin Juarez, and Reggie Wilson, echoes Wilson’s choreographic logic and research methodology that reflect the complexity of time, space, and movement across the African Diaspora.

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