Tara Donovan and Kim Brandt: Sculpture, Movement, and Perception

This new film documents choreographer Kim Brandt's new work Choices, performed by six dancers—Martita Abril, Jessica Cook, Courtney Cooke, Leslie Cuyjet, Ayano Elson, and Lydia Okrent—amid Tara Donovan's exhibition Stratagems at our New York gallery. Presented by Pace Live, our interdisciplinary platform for performance and live art, Choices 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 the artist's installation in Stratagems, shifting optical effects play out across the sculptures’ reflective and refractive surfaces.