In PARTS the ethos of a crumbling decadent society is personified by an almost famous woman. Her attempts to play an “important role” in society are chronicled in dances that look something like starting down a highway that is suddenly reconfigured into multiple broken intersecting streets. She has to constantly reinvent, reorient and reconfigure herself.
Dances depict the ultra material world as a kind of empty calorie animism. Desires are unexpectedly expressed in the power of social objects like a coffee cup, a purse, and a wig. Habitat is what one possesses and what one is possessed by.
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WorkArtOut is a contemporary performance featuring video, dance and live music. Videos feature the process of making time–based art in gyms and sports complexes across America.
WorkArtOut stimulates the audience to explore and investigate our national obsession with sports. When are our bodies free and when are they institutionalized? Have we been desensitized? How has our creativity been affected? How does sports culture instill narcissism and exploitation? How is jingoism tied into sports culture? What are the repercussions? What is health?
WAO shows rarely experienced creativity in sports spaces to jostle the audience out of our unexamined and excessive enthusiasm for sports and the imbalanced emphasis on competition that it encourages in every arena of our lives.
Made possible with the support of a Rocket Grant(Andy Warhol Visual Arts Foundation, Charlotte Street Foundation and Spencer Art Museum).
