About the Performances

• Brendan Fernandes, Inaction, 2019

  Brendan Fernandes (b. 1979, Nairobi, Kenya; lives in Chicago, IL)
  Inaction, 2019

  With Inaction, Brendan Fernandes considers how we learn to move—both physically and politically—through the built environment. Exploring how we act, what enables action, and what hinders it, dancers explore different forms of assembly and disassembly, joining hands in a circle, triumphantly climbing a sculpture, or separating to stand in static tableaux.

  Performed by: Laura Baumeister, Hanna DiLorenzo, Nick Kearns, kara Hunsinger, Xenia Mansour Muñiz, and “Ash” Malachi Stevens

• Gordon Hall, Hands and Knees, 2025

  Gordon Hall (b. 1983, Boston, MA; lives in Marlboro, NY)
  Hands and Knees, 2025

  In Hands and Knees, Gordon Hall upends the function of a familiar object of waiting: the chair. During live performances, reclining bodies are carried through the gallery on gurney-like sculptures that are placed to rest atop pairs of chairs.

  Performed by: Maud Grauer, Jamillia Greene, Steven Hou, Michael Orr, Jessica Taylor, Tina Wang, and Jean Wildest

• Geumhyung Jeong, Making Show, 2021

  Geumhyung Jeong (b. 1980, Seoul, South Korea; lives in Seoul)
  Making Show, 2021

  Geumhyung Jeong presents an in-gallery performance of Making Show, in which the artist attempts to recreate an existing robot in front of a live audience. Much like a cooking show, certain steps are prepared in advance, conveying a sense of efficiency and polish that belies the messier and clumsier labor involved in producing the work.

• Melanie McLain, Peripersonal, 2020

  Melanie McLain (b. 1982, Tallahassee, FL; lives in Mexico City, Mexico)
  Peripersonal, 2020

  Taking its title from a term used in neuroscience, Peripersonal refers to the zone of space immediately surrounding one’s body. In performances, wall-like partitions separate two dancers who improvise their movements in response to one another and to the limits imposed by the surrounding structure.

  Performed by: Kara Brody, Hanna DiLorenzo, Erin Kilmurray, and Amanda Maraist

• Cally Spooner, Warm Up, 2016

  Cally Spooner (b. 1983, Ascot, UK; lives in Turin, Italy)
  Warm Up, 2016

  In Warm Up, a dancer stretches and prepares for a performance that never takes place. Suspended in a state of continuous rehearsal, the work captures the incessant need to always be ready.

  Performed by: Rex Delafkaran and Tina Wang