Carriage / Matty Davis and Ben Gould.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Matty, author, artist.

Gould, Ben, author, artist.

Contributor:

Class of 1894 Fund.

Series:

Document series ; 3.

Document series ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performance art--21st century.

Performance art.

Performing arts--Psychological aspects.

Performing arts.

Artists' books.

Physical Description:

158 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, PA : Miller ICA at Carnegie Mellon University ; Brooklyn, NY : Wendy's Subway, 2019.

Summary:

Literary Nonfiction. Dance. Performance Studies. Disability Studies. CARRIAGE is a site-responsive performance by Matty Davis and Ben Gould that radically explores control and empathy. Informed by evolving senses of the body, from injury to trauma, healing, and growth, the work draws from the variance of Davis and Gould's distinct physicalities to develop a shared language of movement. In this language, empathy is a physical tool, resistance offers stability, and a space is created in which everything is leveled, bringing real fear, awakening, and responsibility. Created in collaboration with designers Ayham Ghraowi and Matt Wolff, this publication includes writing, photographs, and drawings to evoke the urgent physical and interpersonal landscape of CARRIAGE. The artists bear witness to themselves and to each other as they undergo a wide range of physical and emotional dynamics that navigate trust, need, difficulty, and joy. The temporal and spatial experience of CARRIAGE is resituated on the page, as are Davis and Gould's voices, which build off of each other, overlap, and merge as first person singular and plural meet. Their voices are joined by reflections from audience members who attended CARRIAGE in its various locations--aboard a moving vessel on the Chicago River, in a limestone cave network in Kansas City--which offer insight into the viewers' own bodies and unique physical and psychological spaces. As these voices combine and accumulate, a broader portrait emerges, not only of a performance, but of the intricacies of human vulnerability, challenge, and care.

Notes:

Title from cover.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1894 Fund.

ISBN:

1732708649

9781732708648

OCLC:

1122166665

Publisher Number:

99984812648