19 Acts of Covid-19 Bravery
Co-curated alongside Brendan Drake, this online performance exhibition grew from an initial prompt to reframe everyday occurrences, during COVID-19, could be re-framed as acts of immense bravery. Performances took the shape of films, audio poetry, fitness classes with cats, puppetry, music, social media interventions and more.
19 Acts challenged the ways we can connect through technology, through our bodies, and through time, using the full might of our cleverness, our potential for abstraction, and our propensity for hope.
19 Acts ran from April-August 2020.
// creative production
// digital exhibition design
// curation
“Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer, filmed from above, moved to embrace but only encountered the other's spectral form. Candace Thompson-Zachery's hands reached into empty air in entreaty and offering in André M. Zachery's meditation on being unable to come into contact with elders for fear of passing along infection. Ladenheim's own project, a digital mood board titled This Crisis Looks Good On You, drew uncomfortable attention to the performative nature of optimism and optimization on social media.”
— Dance Magazine, 6 of Our Favorite Digital Dance Projects to Come Out of Quarantine
FEATURED WORKS & ARTISTS
EMBRACE IN THE TIME OF
COVID-19
Bridgman|Packer Dance
SERVING THE PUBLIC
Vincenzo Catarisano & Matthew Ricketts
STRINGS (Performance Archive)
Clemence Debaig
SPARE ROOM
Brendan Drake & Matthew Ricketts
IS ANYBODY OUT THERE?
Ali Goss & Liz Oakley
IN THE NOW
Kayla Hamilton
JUST A GESTURE
Reid Herreid & Holly Taylor
CAESURA
Caroline Haydon
NOTHING TO SEE HERE
Here's T(w)o Collective
THIS CRISIS LOOKS GOOD ON YOU
Kate Ladenheim
SMILE
Julia Orquera Bianco
BECOMING THE FOURTEENTH MOON
Sahar Sajadieh
VIR{US}
Same As Sister - S.A.S.
HOW TO BE IN A CRISIS (2020)
Tara Sheena - Offline as of 5/25/20.
I'VE NEVER DONE THIS BEFORE
Laurel Snyder
AS SURE AS SURE CAN BE
Mei Yamanaka
JUST PAST AND BEYOND
André Zachery
Top image: video still from André M. Zachery’s Just Past and Beyond. Cover image of Mei Yamanaka.