Co-commissioned with the Walker Artwork Heart and Nottingham Up to date, “Carolyn Lazard: Lengthy Take” explores the social and aesthetic dimensions of accessibility via documentation and efficiency. That includes an immersive multi-channel video and sound work anchored by 4 sculptures that reimagine current ICA seating for media viewing, the exhibition encourages guests to rethink the shape through which an paintings resides and why sight has been privileged within the spectatorship of dance.

“Carolyn Lazard: Lengthy Take” furthers ICA’s mission of offering a platform for ascendant artists who spark dialogues on key modern points and builds upon its dedication to advancing interdisciplinary practices. The exhibition is co-curated by Meg Onli, who served as Andrea B. Laporte Curator.
“Carolyn Lazard’s work appears past materials constraints of medium and makes use of each conventional and non-traditional methods to interact guests in urgent conversations on entry, debility, and the humanities,” mentioned Zoë Ryan, the ICA’s Daniel W. Dietrich, II Director. “This exhibition marks a homecoming of kinds for Carolyn, who’s an alum of the College of Pennsylvania and whose work the ICA has lengthy adopted and championed. It has been particularly rewarding to collaborate once more with Meg Onli, who’s intimately aware of our mission in addition to with Carolyn’s artistic observe, to actualize their imaginative and prescient for this new fee.”

By Lengthy Take, Lazard examines the legacy of dance for the digicam via the lens of accessibility as a artistic software. A sound set up anchors the work, which features a recorded studying of a dance rating, the sound of a dancer’s motion and breath, and an audio description. To create the sound piece, Lazard supplied dancer and choreographer Jerron Herman with an unique dance rating, filmed his efficiency, and subsequently collaborated with poet and artist Joselia Rebekah Hughes on the audio description of the filmed recording.

The ensuing work deliberately blurs the boundaries between motion, description, and translation. By presenting this dance work utilizing textual content and sound moderately than visually, Lazard examines how a efficiency is perhaps communicated past its picture and encourages us to consider ways in which artworks are made accessible. The work additionally locations new emphasis on the often-unseen networks of care, labor, and friendship that make collaborative endeavors attainable.

The exhibition on the ICA is skilled inside a gallery coated with vinyl flooring mats harkening to a dance studio. Inside the house, Lazard locations current ICA seating, reimagined and altered by Lazard with cushioning, backrests, and peak changes. By this sculptural intervention, the seating turns into extra appropriate for longer stays and extra welcoming for guests with various entry wants.

“Carolyn Lazard’s creative observe brings to the fore views on care which are pivotal to sparking change throughout fields, modeling how creative course of and paintings could be in service to restorative practices. As a longtime collaborator and interlocutor, their work has deeply formed my private curatorial observe and I’m honored to have the chance to collaborate on their first solo presentation in the USA, significantly in Philadelphia the place we each have deep roots,” mentioned Onli.

at ICA, Institute of Up to date Artwork on the College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
till July 9, 2023