DiverseWorks is pleased to share that Curator Rachel Cook has been selected as the sole representative of the United States to be a Curator-in-Residence in CPR 2017: The Baltic Sea, a project of the Curatorial Program for Research. Rachel, along with seven other...
by Joanna Lugo bell hooks once wrote, “There is a particular knowledge that comes from suffering. It is a way of knowing that is often expressed through the body, what it knows, what has been deeply inscribed on it through experience.” As a performer in...
By Jenna Jacobs The first time I walked I observed a sign spinner on the street corner. I thought to myself, “how is his work any different than what I am doing?” He definitely had more freedom in his actions, but all he was doing was a series of moves that he had...
“Only in Your Way,” is a new collaborative piece between New York artists Heather Rowe and Kate Gilmore, an ongoing exhibition at DiverseWorks. The performance segment of the exhibition showcases different woman carrying an object as they walk a designated path within...
BY NATALIA BARRIENTOS Only in Your Way is loaded with the political anguish of today. On an intensely painted red platform a woman, who wears the same red and whose boots wear out with every step she takes walks at her own determined pace building her path and the...
BY ERIN RIOLA As the gallery filled with people, a roar of chatter filled the room. Filtering in amongst the voices were footsteps with intention, and a soulful pop voice singing “…I would only be in your way,” on repeat— louder or quieter depending on the...
