Conversations Without Walls | From the Platform Archive I:

Eiko Otake’s A Body in Places & 
Ishmael Houston-Jones’ Lost & Found

Today at 5pm (ET)! 
Eiko slumps against an open door. She wears a white kimono and cast on her arm and holds a bouquet of tall white flowers with leafy stalks. Some of the flower’s white petals pour out of her closed mouth. She looks out the open door.
Eiko Otake, A Body in Places, Danspace Project, 2016. Photo: Ian Douglas.
TONIGHT at 5pm (ET), tune in to the first Conversation Without Walls of

The digital conversation will revisit Eiko Otake’s Platform 2016: A Body in Places, which illuminated and expanded Otake’s solo project in locations all over NYC’s East Village, and Ishmael Houston-Jones & Will Rawls’ Platform 2016: Lost & Found, which queried the effects of the loss of a generation of artists to AIDS on current dance creation.

The one-time, live streamed CWW reunites Lydia Bell, creative producer and former Danspace Program Director, and Kristin Juarez, a research specialist for the African American Art History Initiative, Getty Research Institute and past Danspace curatorial fellow. Bell & Juarez will discuss their experiences with the Platforms and share select archival material.


Admission: Free with RSVP

RSVP is required. Registration closes at 4:30pm ET!

A Zoom link will be sent to registrants approximately 30 minutes prior to the event.

Accessibility: CART live captioning will be provided for all film screenings and conversations. A phone number will be provided so that the Zoom chat may be accessed audibly. Requests, questions, or feedback can be submitted to seta@danspaceproject.org.
On Danspace's Online Journal today:
New excerpts from the archives!
Eiko Otake: A Body in Places
Eiko kneels into a wooden floor. Her arm is stretched out in front of her, covered in a yellow cast. She holds a bright red object. Her other hand grips the floorboards, he knuckles buckling. Her long black hair dangles beneath her.
Eiko Otake, Platform 2016 solo, Zürcher Gallery, NY, 2016. Photo: Ian Douglas.
In 2014, Eiko Otake commenced her solo project, A Body in Places, through which she has been exploring the relationship of a fragile human body to the myriad intrinsic traits that are contained by a specific place. Danspace Project’s tenth Platform, A Body in Places, curated by Judy Hussie-Taylor and Lydia Bell with Eiko Otake, was a month-long multi-disciplinary program that illuminated and expanded Eiko’s solo project.

Watch an edited compilation of A Body in Places on our Online Journal!
Joan Jonas: Moving Off the Land
A vivacious image of the sea projects on the wall and Joan. Joan almost blends into the project of red, yellow, and purple coral. A massive starfish is projected behind her. Her dark shadow looms over her, hiding part of the image of the starfish.
 Joan Jonas, Moving Off the Land
Photo: Elísabet Davíðsdóttir. Courtesy Joan Jonas and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York/Rome.
Moving Off the Land, created and performed by Joan Jonas, is an immersive lecture-performance which draws from literature, mythology, and her collections of sketches and notes on the sea. The piece explores “the ocean as a poetic, totemic, and natural entity, as a life source and home to a universe of beings.”

Moving Off the Land premiered in the US at Danspace Project in June, 2018.

Visit Issue 12 of our Online Journal to watch an excerpt of Moving Off the Land.
Journal Issue 12: The Dream of the Audience
A cluster of people stand inside a huge, lofty white tent. The billowy drapes of the tent fold and crease in many places. A bright light shines through the opening of the tent, illuminating the hardwood floor. The group faces us, except for one person
Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born: Sitting On a Man’s Head


A group of brightly lit people stand huddled together. Their mouths are wide open, perhaps singing or yelling. They grip a blender, filled with beige liquid.
Ishmael Houston-Jones & Miguel Gutierrez: Variations on Themes from Lost and Found…

On a soft white background in soft red handwriting is a note scrawled along various angles: "Somewhere else, Self becoming, becoming somewhere else, no belonging”
Moving Through: 10 Years of Danspace Platforms

by Maura Nguyen Donohue
A composite of book covers.
Archived Platform Journals & Catalogues Now Available as FREE PDFs
Platform 2021 - Coming Up Next
Eiko Otake & Joan Jonas
A composite of portraits of Eiko and Joan. Eiko stands smiling in front of a dark blue river and blurry cityscape are visible behind her. Her arms hang loosely by her sides. Joan sits on a tall seat and looks off to her right, gently smiling.
Eiko Otake, NYC, March 2021. Photo: Ian Douglas. Joan Jonas. Photo: Toby Coulson.

Today: Monday, June 7

Archival footage: Eiko Otake: A Body in Places (presented as part of Platform 2016: A Body in Places, curated by Lydia Bell, Judy Hussie-Taylor, and Eiko Otake) & Joan Jonas’ Moving Off the Land (US premiere at Danspace Project, 2018).

Friday, June 11 at 5pm (ET)

Admission: Sliding scale $0-$20

Reggie Wilson
Reggie stands atop a large, tilted tree trunk. One hand rests on his hip. He stares off into the distance. A cloudy sky and tall bright green trees are visible behind him.
Reggie Wilson, Prospect Park, May 2021. Photo: Ian Douglas.

Monday, June 14

Archival footage: Reggie Wilson: ...they stood shaking while others began to shout (part of Platform 2018: Dancing Platform, Praying Grounds: Blackness, Churches, and Downtown Dance, curated by Reggie Wilson.

Friday, June 18 at 5pm (ET)

Admission: Sliding scale $0-$20

Kristin and Lydia are smiling and sharing a tender side hug. They stand on tall stone steps in front of the entrance to a building. The building’s facade is composed of grey bricks and large grey wooden doors. They both wear dark winter coats.
Conversations Without Walls
From the Archive II

Monday, June 14 at 5pm (ET)

Admission: Free with RSVP

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