aunts again, all over.
Team One by AUNTS
The Chocolate Factory
5 – 49, 49th ave
LIC
april 17 – 19 (thur – sat)
8pm
tickets – $15, and directions
www.chocolatefactorytheater.org
Team One by AUNTS is a show of 3 artists chosen by a 19 person curatorial team
after jump is explanation of this project and process….
explicitly placing the curatorial group on a crowded pedestal, above that of the comfortably numbered show it chooses to exhibit, Team One is concerned with the politics of curating dance – examining expectations, power relations, tastes and themes expressed in choosing people/groups/works to present
the curatorial activity, in the form of written, videotaped and photographed documentation of the process, is presented to the audience as an art installation in conjunction with the live, curated show
the live show produced by Team One may seem typical, but what is revealed and magnified is the difficult process of the attempt to be responsible for the presentation of work that has potential to be relevant
team one artists:
Bradlee Hicks
Ishmael Houston-Jones
Kenta Nagai
team one curators:
Ariel Polonsky
bibi (beatrice barbareschi)
Holly Faurot
Jeso O’Neill
Laurie Berg
Michael Helland
sarah h. paulson
Eva Schmidt
Montzerrat Contreras
Leslie Cuyjet
Devika Wickremesinghe
Kristin Hatleberg
Chih-Chun Huang
Chase Granoff
Tara O’Con
Ben Pryor
Jon Moniaci
Sari Nordman
Anne Zuerner
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AUNTS is about having dance happen. The dance you’ve already seen, that pops into your head, that is known and expected and unknown and unexpected. Dance that seeps into the cracks of street lights, subway commotion, magazine myth, drunk nights at the bar, the family album, and the couch where you lay and softly glance at the afternoon light coming in through the window. AUNTS constantly tests a model of producing dance/performance/parties. A model that supports the development of current, present, and contemporary dancing. A model that expects to be adopted, adapted, replicated, and perpetuated by any person who would like to use it. Where performing can last five seconds or five hours; never a “work in progress.” Where the work of performing is backed by the “land of plenty” rather than “there is not enough.” Where the work of AUNTS defies the regulation of institution, capitalism, and consumerism. AUNTS is about being gracious in this world.
Thank you.
AUNTS