Whitney Biennial 2022
Performances
A series of original performances by Raven Chacon, Terence Nance, Julie Tolentino, and Ivy Kwan Arce showcase music, dance, and multimedia immersive design.
For Zitkála-Šá
From 2017 to 2020, Raven Chacon (b. 1977, Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation) created a series of thirteen lithographs, For Zitkála-Šá, that are graphic scores dedicated to different contemporary American Indian, First Nations, or Mestiza women working in music performance, composition, or sound art. Each of Chacon’s scores will be activated in this performance.
Saturday, July 16
4 pm
7:30 pm
Raven Chacon, For Carmina Escobar from For Zitkála-Šá, 2018. Lithograph, 11 × 8 1/2 in. (27.9 × 21.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the O’Grady Foundation. Image courtesy the artist and Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts, Pendleton, OR. Photograph by Nika Blasser
ROY G BIV
Alex Da Corte’s ROY G BIV is both a video installation and an ongoing performance piece. For the performance, the structure displaying Da Corte’s projected video work is painted in a series of colors by Americo Da Corte, the artist’s brother who is a professional house painter. The painting sequence—red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet—mirrors the color spectrum and reflects the title of the work.
Sunday, July 17 (Indigo)
10:30 am
Monday, August 8 (Violet)
10:30 am
Alex Da Corte, ROY G BIV, 2022. Video, color, sound; 60 min., with wood box with back-projected screen, paint, performance, and powder-coated chairs. Courtesy the artist; Matthew Marks Gallery, New York and Los Angeles; and Sadie Coles HQ, London. Photograph by Ron Amstutz
Sutter’s Mill
Jason Rhoades’s sculpture Sutter’s Mill (2000) is assembled and dismantled weekly by Museum art handlers over the course of the Biennial. This durational performance symbolizes the constant tension between order and disorder, creation and destruction, that is involved in the process of making art.
Fridays through September 2
12–8 pm
Jason Rhoades, Sutter's Mill, 2000 (installation view, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York). Polished aluminum pipes, polished aluminum, wood, metal profiles, metal clamps, blue plastic barrels, wood trestle, cleaning rags, clothing, backpacks, construction helmets, lamp, and laminated color prints (from Perfect World, 1999). Photograph by Paula Court
Fourth Dimension Trigger, Fifth Dimension Trauma
Terence Nance’s Fourth Dimension Trigger, Fifth Dimension Trauma, developed and produced by Nance, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Superblue, is a ritual and immersive performance meant to be in communion with one’s past, present and future—unfolding within a daring installation that blends emerging technologies with dramatic scenic design.
Postponed
Art by Terence Nance and Timothy Belknap
HOLD TIGHT GENTLY
Hovering over an inclined, mirrored platform set against the slowly setting sun on the Museum’s third floor, Julie Tolentino’s HOLD TIGHT GENTLY honors the weighted impact of another person.
Friday, October 7
1–9 pm
Julie Tolentino
. . . blindfolded
Sterling-Duprey’s performance of . . . blindfolded took place in the midst of the Biennial installation. Sterling-Duprey’s dance-drawings, a series of works begun in 2020, involve her blindfolding herself to make intense jittery, abstract marks on paper and walls in response to jazz improvisation. Visitors encountered the product of Sterling-Duprey’s performance alongside video documentation of the artist performing another iteration of the work.
Awilda Sterling-Duprey, . . . blindfolded, 2020–. Performance, Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It's Kept, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2022
MOBY DICK; or, The Whale
In MOBY DICK; or, The Whale, award-winning filmmaker and visual artist Wu Tsang and her collective, Moved by the Motion, embark upon a feature-length, silent-film telling of Herman Melville’s great American novel. Presented in its North American premiere at The Shed, the film includes original music composed by Caroline Shaw and Andrew Yee with Asma Maroof, performed live by Musicians of the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Daniela Candillari.
Friday, April 15
Saturday, April 16
Sunday, April 17
Moved by the Motion, MOBY DICK; or, The Whale, 2022. Directed by Wu Tsang, Schauspielhaus Zürich, 2022. (Design Pics Inc / Alamy Stock Footage)
