The Number of Inches Between Them [electronic resource].

Steel House Projects Winter Street Warehouse MIT List Visual Arts Center 2019

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The evening unfurled easily, mixing together long-time collaborators and strangers, farmers and urbanites, young and old. The tone was ceremonious, reflective, and unaffected. As the light changed, the attendees followed the artists’ presentations from a drawing exhibit in the hayloft to a performance of a short play in the greenhouse. One artist, with alluring music and poetry, led observers through the barn to the edge of the pasture. There was a song in the driveway, photocopied drawings handed out under the chestnut tree, and a frenetic movement piece involving almost all performers. And finally, a statement read by Hall. Backlit by the lights from the porch, Hall stood on the lawn and read a short reflection on their physical and emotional experience of The Number of Inches Between Them. In their eloquent and to-the-bone way, they ended by saying, “I did not realize until this week that the project’s critique of self-reliance and of the myth of able-bodiedness was taking place on a much smaller scale in its fabrication and installation. In the midst of feeling so powerless in relation to all this weight, I realized that I had made something that forced me to be taught, yet again, that I need lots of many kinds of help. The sculpture itself was teaching me, with my body, the thing that I need to know: No one ever does anything alone.”
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Artists' writings
Performance Art
Sculpture

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Gordon Hall
Brian Hochberger
J. Dakota Brown
Elizabeth Atterbury
Meghan Brady
Alhena Katsof
Lydia Adler Okrent
Elizabeth Lamb
Yuri Stone
David J. Getsy
Mary Bok
Alan Crichton
Del Hickey
Susan Schor
Millie Kapp
Chris Domenick
Mike Peterson
Danny Harris
Lou Desautels