Dallas Contemporary is pleased to announce DC EMPTY, a new performance and film programming series presented in collaboration with regional artists, providing a short-term venue for them to deploy a range of time-based work in available space throughout the museum.
Beginning in December 2022 and running until early March 2023, in the interim when Dallas Contemporary’s west gallery is empty between exhibitions, a series of artist performances and video works will activate the space. Following this initial 3-month run, the programming series will remain a fixture of Dallas Contemporary’s public programs, operating nimbly on an ad hoc basis within vacant spaces of Dallas Contemporary’s over 40,000 sq. feet of exhibition space.
DC EMPTY is the first of several new initiatives the kunsthalle will announce that frame public programs as an extension of its curatorial work, enriching and expanding discourse around the display of contemporary art through not only exhibitions, but through the presentation of performance, film, conversation, and festivals.
“We are thrilled to launch this new series of performance and film programs with our area’s artists and filmmakers,” says Executive Director Carolina Alvarez-Mathies. “Giving creative space to our community is one of the most essential parts of fostering a more vibrant city, and we are privileged to have a building that can provide the opportunity to do so. We look forward to witnessing the ways this series encourages collaboration, creative enterprise, and how it might broaden the definition of contemporary art here in Dallas.”
The first project to launch DC EMPTY is Kitchen Sink Performa, a multimedia happening curated in collaboration with artist and University of North Texas professor Kasey Short and Dallas Contemporary’s Louis L. Borick Foundation Renaissance Intern Seth Tarango on Saturday, 3 December from 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm. Exhibiting an array of established, emerging, and selected student artists working in performance and time-based mediums, Kitchen Sink Performa is a platform for expounding upon performative and reactive aesthetics in performance art, performative computing, experimental cinema, and video art that examine genres in narrativity, abstraction, artificial intelligence, identity, and gender.
Kitchen Sink Performa artists include: Brandy Michele Adams, Gren Bee, Melanie Clemmons, Diana Gonzalez, Zak Loyd, Connor Mizell, Erick Ortiz, Teresita Pantoja, Kamyrn Robins, Kasey Short and Colin Stokes.
Download the Kitchen Sink Performa press kit here.
Learn more and register your (free) admission here.
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About Kitchen Sink Performa | Kitchen Sink Performa is an incubator project that exists to exchange a wide array of established, emerging, and selected student artists from the University tier working through a diverse range of material in performance-based media.
About Dallas Contemporary | Dallas Contemporary is a non-collecting art museum presenting new and challenging ideas from regional, national and international artists. Located in an industrial building in the Design District, Dallas Contemporary documents new directions in art through rotating exhibitions, publications, public programs, and learning programs for visitors of all ages. As a contemporary arts institution that grapples with timely and complex issues, Dallas Contemporary firmly believes in the power of artists' ideas and voices to chronicle and transform society. always different. always free.
Dallas Contemporary press contact: Alexandra Hulsey, Communications Manager
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