ISSUE Project Room
Virtually
April 2021

I step into the intricate and intimate instructions of Alison Knowles’ “Proposition IV (Squid)” score through a dance film that reckons with loss and accumulation, and embodied approaches to mapping private space.

In 368, I use Knowles’ data and instructions as a roadmap for investigating my own private space. Sound opens a portal into what lays beyond the visual boundaries of my face and upper body: my home. I followed the sounds, colors, and physical shifts that my home announces and attempted to hold them within me. Although I made my home, I am still learning how my home makes and made me.

This piece premiered Thursday, April 22nd, at 8pm EST as part of the With Womens Work series. With this series, ISSUE Project Room commissioned artists to interpret and respond to scores included in Womens Work, a magazine first edited and self-published in 1975 by artists Alison Knowles and Annea Lockwood.