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MPAL Exhibits 2022-2023: Listening Between: Finding Choreographic Traces and Meanings in the Stacks

Documents exhibits at the Music and Performing Arts Library during the 2021-2022 academic year.

About Listening Between

Listening Between: Finding Choreographic Traces and Meaning in the Stacks was an exhibit curated by MFA Dance students in the Graduate Synthesis Laboratory class in Fall 2022 at the Music & Performing Arts Library. In this exhibit, each student selected two similar concepts and listened between them to find new resonances and possibilities. They have access materials in the library and invite the public to join in this listening between and they have activated their research through dancing, score making, drawings, archival research, and documentation. This exhibit asks us to be in dialogue with their research and the ways that dances lives in and is archived in the library. 

The exhibit was accompanied by discussions and performances by Alex Tecza, Ana Valderama, and Banafsheh Amiri.

Selected Exhibit Materials

Exhibit Photos

picture of items on display in exhibit case

Hope/Resistance by Banafsheh Amiri

Hope/Resistance by Banafsheh Amiri

Attention and Awareness by Alex Tecza

Attention and Awareness by Alex Tecza

glitch & fault by Adanya Gilmorer

glitch & fault by Adanya Gilmorer

[Re]searches and [Re]cycled

Strategies of land/space based art-making and Strategies to revalue archival knowledge by Gabriel Bruno Eng Gonzalez

Strategies of land/space based art-making and Strategies to revalue archival knowledge by Gabriel Bruno Eng Gonzalez

abysmal/abyssal by Ana Valderama

abysmal/abyssal by Ana Valderama

Embodied and Embedded by Joe Bowie

Embodied and Embedded by Joe Bowie

Embodied and Embedded by Joe Bowie

Repetition and Recreation by Anna Peretz Rogovoy

Repetition and Recreation by Anna Peretz Rogovoy

deep listening and performance scoring methods by Juli Brandano

deep listening and performance scoring methods by Juli Brandano

Positionality and Whereabouts by Sojung Lim

Positionality and Whereabouts by Sojung Lim