Choices

In her practice, Brandt explores collective actions and counter isolations through a vocabulary of minimal movements that are often pedestrian in nature. By employing an incremental, site-specific, process-oriented approach, she draws our attention to individual bodies as they negotiate space and together create kinetically charged, multi-person atmospheres.

Presented by Pace Live—the gallery’s interdisciplinary platform for performance and live art—Brandt’s newly commissioned work builds over time through a series of movements addressing the spiral as a generative action and embodied experience. These movements resonate with the formal structures of Donovan’s new sculptures made of upcycled CD-ROM discs, drawing out the seemingly sentient nature of each work. As performers and viewers move through Donovan’s installation, shifting optical effects play out across the sculptures’ reflective and refractive surfaces.

Brandt and Donovan share a keen interest in the relationship of the individual to the whole and how aggregative strategies can dramatically reframe our perception. While Donovan invites a type of improvisational choreography as viewers navigate around her works and as the object dissolves into the sum of its parts (used CDs, in the case of Stratagems), Brandt explores how individuals in an ensemble can work both together and alone while guided by collective decision-making.