Marking the Occasion

Cover, reading the title, 'MARKING THE OCCASION' in capital light yellow letters and sans serif type, centred on the top of the frame. The background is made up of a photograph of two entangled pairs of feet on what seems to be a dance floor. The photograph is green, as if screen printed with a single colour.
Spread depicting a monotone green photograph of a person on the ground holding a microphone, smiling at the two people who sit on chairs around them. The left side shows a post-it note that reads 'typewriter + body mic' and on the right is flow text arranged in a particular shape. The photograph is covering the whole background while the text and post-it sit on top in light yellow.
Spread of the pages 80-81, with several words in capital sans serif letters interposed between negative space. The text is green and the background light yellow.
Publisher:
Wendy's Subway

Marking the Occasion represents the final movement in a year-long engagement with the question, "Can a performance be a rough draft of a written work?" In this case, the rough draft took place at Mount Tremper Arts during a 2019 Watershed Residency. Taking the practices of choreography and co-writing as methods of investigation, curator-editors Jaime Shearn Coan and Tara Aisha Willis introduce new trajectories for live work and text by bringing together dance and performance artists from across the US who occupy multiple roles within art economies and in whose work language and writing are prevalent. Exploring a multiplicity of lived, embodied experiences within a single event, Marking the Occasiongathers together archival materials from the residency alongside new contributions from participants David Thomson, Julie Tolentino, Mariana Valencia, Takahiro Yamamoto, and Mlondi Zondi. The publication also marks the events of 2020, and traces their reverberations through each artist's practice as time, movement, action, and collaboration take on new meanings.  

With contributions by: Mlondi Zondi, Takahiro Yamamoto, Mariana Valencia, Julie Tolentino, and David Thomson.

Authors
Jaime Shearn Coan, Tara Aisha Willis (eds.)
Year
2020
Length
184 pages
Cover
Softback
Binding
Perfect binding
Dimensions
17 x 23.8 cm.

Related Products