Utterances from the Chorus
2020

PLATFORM 2020: Utterances from the Chorus emerged from co-curator Okwui Okpokwasili and Judy Hussie-Taylor’s interest in creating containers for sharing artistic practices: “Could we create a Platform for artists to be in a conversation with one another and offer that to a broader audience?” The result is a program that was planned to unfold over four weeks with multiple voices, artistic collaborations, and interdisciplinary juxtapositions (although the final weeks were cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic). Together, Okpokwasili and Hussie-Taylor developed these lines of curatorial inquiry for the Platform:

How do we weave a collective song?
How can the voice and body be a site of resistance and transformation?
How can we share artistic practices – between artists and between artists and audiences?

PLATFORM 2020 follows Okpokwasili’s longstanding inquiries addressing the lives of young women of color. It takes its title from Saidiya Hartman’s introduction to her book Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments.

co-curated by Okwui Okpokwasili & Danspace Executive Director & Chief Curator, Judy Hussie-Taylor

artists:
Martita Abril, Nacera Belaza, Lydia Bell, Peter Born, Jennifer Brogle, mayfield brooks, Tina Campt, Leslie Cuyjet, André Daughtry, Eisa Davis, Maura Nguyen Donohue, devynn emory, Brittany Engel-Adams, Lily Gold, Yves B Golden x Venïson Man, Naja Gordon, Melanie Greene, Audrey Hailes, Remi Harris, Saidiya Hartman, Jasmine Hearn, Justin Hicks, Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, Judy Hussie-Taylor, Meryem Jazouli, Shayla-Vie Jenkins, Kristin Juarez, NIC Kay, Chaesong Kim, Tendayi Kuumba, M Lamar, Simone Leigh, Breyanna Maples, Priscilla Marrero, Anais Maviel, Seta Morton, Benedict Nguyen, Okwui Okpokwasili, Maya Orchin, Kay Ottinger, iele paloumpis, Angie Pittman, jess pretty, Greg Purnell, Hans Rasch, Katrina Reid, Jean Carla Rodea, Lily Bo Shapiro, Jaime Shearn Coan, Alice Sheppard, Samita Sinha, Eleanor Smith, Pamela Sneed, Spiral Theory Test Kitchen (Bobbi Salvör Menuez, Quori Theodor & Precious Okoyomon), Tatyana Tenenbaum, David Thomson, Pyeng Threadgill, Ogemdi Ude, Mariana Valencia, Cecilia Vicuña, Asiya Wadud, Charmaine Warren, Ni’Ja Whitson, AJ Wilmore, Anna Witenberg, Eva Yaa Asantewaa, Nehemoyia Young. Writers in-residence: Chanelle Adams, Omar Berrada, Legacy Russell, Asiya Wadud.