Maintenance and Dependency
Originally Published in Maintenance Required, Whitney Independent Study Program Curatorial Exhibition Catalogue, 2013 During the 2012 presidential campaign, a heated debate broke out between Republicans and Democrats around the terms by which President Obama qualified the achievements of entrepreneurs and small-business owners. Spurred on by the Republican convention’s choice of the theme “We Built […]
Performing Between Action and Script
Originally published in Dispatch, the online journal published by Independent Curators International In his recent musings in Artforum on the future of Trisha Brown’s work, Douglas Crimp posits that her signature solo Watermotor, as performed by Brown, is a masterpiece. He then follows up by inquiring, “Will it ever be danceable by anyone but Brown?” […]