Using the wisdom of dance to find our way back to our bodies
Participants in Amanda Williamss Embodied Sensations, in The Museum of Modern Art s vast atrium in New York. As we emerge from the pandemic, were not just walking around without masks, were learning how to re-enter our bodies. Julieta Cervantes via The New York Times.
by Gia Kourlas
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Somewhere in the middle of April, I started taking up space again in the world, the bigger one outside of my apartment, beyond my neighborhood. Taking up space is a bizarre feeling after a year spent inside. Its sometimes exhilarating, sometimes terrifying. Its always strange.
3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now
Amanda Williams’s ‘Embodied Sensations’ at MoMA; Matthew Wong’s ink drawings; and installations by Cameron Rowland take on policing.
A mother and daughter participate in a mini-performance in “Amanda Williams: Embodied Sensations” by interpreting a movement instruction.Credit.Julieta Cervantes
June 9, 2021, 3:11 p.m. ET
Amanda Williams
Through June 20. Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, (212) 708-9400, moma.org.
Ensconced in the Museum of Modern Art’s big atrium, Amanda Williams’s “Embodied Sensations” is a richly reverberant installation piece. You can take it as sculpture, institutional critique and social commentary on public space and its inequitable accessibility and that’s only the beginning. Like a stone tossed in still water, this piece sends ripples in all directions.
This was the first visiting lecture of the semester and the Department of Art and Art History plan to host more throughout the year. Enriched in history, the Art Department’s Visiting Artist Series hopes to get master's of fine arts students thinking about how can art be reflected through different mediums.
Maria Gaspar, Huong Ngo, Anna Martine Whitehead (Online)
Feb. 08, 2021 7:00 p.m. to
8:30 p.m.
Jan. 14, 2021
PRESS RELEASE:
Register to attend here: https://go.unc.edu/o9CJk
Registration will end at 5 pm on February 7. A zoom link will be emailed to registrants 24 hours in advance of the lecture.
Sousveillance â watching from below, âthe monitoring of authorities by informal networks of regular people, equipped with little more than cellphone cameras, video blogs and the desire to remain vigilant against the excesses of the powers that be.â
In this conversation, Whitehead, Gaspar, and Ngô will speak on their respective practices which encompass performance, social practice, and installation, among others. They will draw relationships amongst their research which engage themes of liberation, surveillance, and belonging in the spirit of a collective building of knowledge.