[Many thanks to Nick Quijano for bringing this item to our attention.] Puerto Rico Artwork Information on the work of Puerto Rican choreographer, dancer, and artist Awilda Sterling-Duprey, specifically, her latest efficiency on the Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Saved, which runs fromApril 6–September 5, 2022. Sterling-Duprey carried out . . . blindfolded through the set up of the 2022 Biennial. “Her dance-drawings, a collection of works begun in 2020, contain her blindfolding herself to make intense jittery, summary marks on paper and partitions in response to jazz improvisation.”
Since 1980, Puerto Rican artist and performer Awilda Sterling-Duprey’s (b. 1947) four-decade profession has been influenced as a lot by Afro Cuban non secular dance traditions as by the composer John Cage and musician John Coltrane. Her dance-drawings, a collection of works begun in 2020, contain her blindfolding herself to make intense jittery, summary marks on paper and partitions in response to jazz improvisation.
Sterling-Duprey has defined: “Within the second, whereas making these photographs, I don’t have a way of what I’m doing, however I’m having fun with greedy the idea. Abstraction provides me that openness and that freedom; from there, I can go additional, be riskier in how I work. I’ve been forcing my mind to push concepts for thus lengthy that I don’t have to see what I’m doing. To me, that is what’s most summary. Exactly as a result of this data is encapsulated in my physique, I don’t must see what I’m constructing on. I simply must really feel it first.”
[Video by Oresti Tsonopoulos, Filmed by Alex Munro and Jack Pearce, Edited by Nick Schiarizzi.]
Sterling-Duprey’s efficiency of . . . blindfolded befell within the midst of the Biennial set up. Guests will encounter the product of Sterling-Duprey’s efficiency alongside video documentation of the artist performing one other iteration of the work. [. . .]
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