by Judy Hussie-Taylor Danspace Project Executive Director and Chief Curator   While designing Danspace Project’s Platform series in 2008, I knew I wanted to work with artists as curators to formally frame relationships between artists of different generations. That’s where,… Read more

  by Alex Fialho   For our purposes, this catalogue has to a greater or lesser extent been shaped by the aesthetics of the zine. We offer a tumble of texts and images from our generous contributors—reprints, originals, poems, photos… Read more

  An Oral History with David Yarritu 11/14/2016 by Svetlana Kitto   I had been in New York for about a year when I met Max. He was my boyfriend for four years, from 1984–’88, when he died of AIDS.… Read more

  by Alex Fialho   “What happens to health care, housing, culture and other basic needs for survival after inauguration?” Curator and organizer Ted Kerr projected this and many other pressing questions during his presentation for Danspace Project’s Platform 2016:… Read more

  An Oral History with David Yarritu 10/15/2016 In the eighties, the Pyramid Club became an off-center playhouse for a small community of queers and artists who weren’t interested in the mainstream gay and drag scenes. At the East Village club, an intimate group of artmakers, friends,… Read more

Invitation to contribute to the Danspace Project Archive and Journal The Platform 2016: Lost and Found catalogue features a section, “Memory Palace,” inspired by a technique of memory recall often used by ancient Greek poets. By committing a location to memory, a… Read more

  by Alex Fialho In February 2016, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) released its first ever projective study of lifetime risk for contracting HIV among specific populations, including a deeply troubling estimate: the study predicted that one in two… Read more

by Alex Fialho   For the concluding number of Darrell Jones’ moving performance for the Platform 2016: Lost and Found event on October 15th, Conversation Without Walls, Roberta Flack’s sensational voice rose over the audience in her supple tone singing… Read more

Excerpt from Living Archives and Caregiving: An Interview with Janet Werther, Part 1 The Center for the Humanities, CUNY | November 01, 2016   Release Techniques & the AIDS Body Jordan Lord: You’ve been able to construct an understanding of… Read more

The Lost and Found Platform curatorial team partnered with StoryCorps to record five 40-minute interviews on August 15, 2016, a blisteringly hot day, at Storycorps’s StoryBooth in Foley Square. The following five pairs interviewed each other: Muna Tseng and Nicky… Read more

  TOM RUBNITZ 1955-1992 Tom’s memorial was at The Kitchen and Lady Bunny was the celebrant. There was nothing not beautiful about it: lots of performances, a showing of Tom’s films which were so fucking funny, Bunny complaining the whole… Read more

Danspace Project curatorial fellow Jaime Shearn Coan shares his Platform 2016: Lost & Found Recommended Reading List below:   Poetry Powell, D. A. REPAST: TEA, LUNCH, AND COCKTAILS. Graywolf Press, 2014. Teare, Brian. Pleasure. Boise: Ahsahta Press, 2010. Print. Myles, Eileen. Not Me. New… Read more

As a child of the 90s, advertisements for the musical RENT lined 42nd Street in bright colors and decaying letters. It made its Broadway debut in 1996, during the turning point for HIV medications and the Giuliani crackdown that gentrified… Read more

  DO YOU REMEMBER ARNIE? When photographer/choreographer/dancer Arnie Zane died of AIDS-related Lymphoma in 1988 at the age of 39, I was a relatively new member to the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane & Company. Arnie never stopped choreographing. He created… Read more

Platform 2016: Lost & Found co-curator Will Rawls shares his Recommended Reading List below:   Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, Samuel Delany This Will Have Been (exhibition catalogue), Helen Molesworth ed. General Idea: Haute Culture, A Retrospective (exhibition catalogue) The… Read more

The morning I boarded the train from Oslo the sky was a threatening grey. As I walked the 20 minutes along the highway from Skoppum, where the train stopped, to Borre, I bargained with the sky. I figured all I… Read more

Excerpt from Jaime Shearn Coan in Conversation with Mariana Valencia critical correspondence | September 23, 2016   JSC: [W]orking with archives is so crucial (and I am by no means the first to say so!). They are these time capsules… Read more

  Last April, a gay elder I didn’t know died of cancer. His far-away cousin hoped I’d accompany him as a doula in his final days. Neglected and abused in his nursing home, he had no nearby family or visitors… Read more

by Alex Fialho   Neil Greenberg began his evening for Danspace Project’s Platform 2016: Lost and Found with a dance and a list. Between a moving solo consisting of material drawn from his Not-About-AIDS-Dance (1994) and The Disco Project (1995),… Read more

As we gear up for the Lost & Found Platform this October & November, curators Ishmael Houston-Jones and Will Rawls offer some key texts that have informed their research. Platform 2016: Lost & Found co-curator Ishmael Houston-Jones shares his Recommended Reading… Read more

These two mixes gather sonic traces of the AIDS crisis, club scenes, communities of color and queer experience over the last several decades.  Clocking in at 5+ hours of music, it’s still very incomplete.  Loosely organized generationally, Part I reflects… Read more