Notes on The School for Temporary Liveness
Edited by Lauren Bakst
University of the Arts School of Dance, 2020
Paperback, 8.5 x 5.5 in.
50 pages
$10.00
WPA Note:
This is a beautiful example of an artist-organized project that brought together artists and scholars to convene around the question, "How might we, via the collective performance of a school, propose and enact other models of living in, and with, the world?"
Description:
This publication gathers reflections on and responses to The School for Temporary Liveness. Taking place for one week in Philadelphia in the fall of 2019, the event brought performances, workshops, talks, conversations, and new formats for study together within the poetic frame of a school. Notes on the School for Temporary Liveness includes contributions by Lauren Bakst, Jon Baldwin, Donna Faye Burchfield, Thomas F. DeFrantz, VK Preston, Rebecca Schneider, Andrew J. Smyth and Connie Yu. Their reflections offer glimmers of what the School for Temporary Liveness was, and have embedded within them tools and inquiries for ongoing collective study.
About the Author(s):
Lauren Bakst is a New York-based artist working in the expanded field of dance and performance practices. Her work is informed by her movements between choreographic, pedagogical, and discursive modes of thinking and making. Lauren's work has been commissioned by SculptureCenter (2017), Danspace Project (2016), and Pioneer Works (2015). Her performances have also been presented at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, The Drawing Center, Movement Research at Judson Church, MANIFESTA, Pieter, the Knockdown Center, and Abrons Arts Center, among others. She has held residencies at Pieter, Mount Tremper Arts, and Tanzhaus Zurich. She was a 2014-15 Open Sessions Artist at The Drawing Center, a 2014 danceWEB scholarship recipient at ImpulsTanz, Vienna, and the Research & Development Season Fellow at the New Museum for their 2014-15 season focusing on Choreography. Bakst is the Managing Editor of the Movement Research Performance Journal. Her writing has been published in BOMB Magazine, where she was also the Online Performance Editor from 2011-2014, as well as by Danspace Project Journal, ICA Philadelphia Notes, and the New Museum.