CoLab: Performing for a Better World

Please join Dorit Cypis for an interactive performance and dialogue, followed by a conversation with art historian/curator Karen Moss on aesthetics & social justice.

CoLab: Performing for a Better World is a living laboratory weaving together aesthetic strategies of immersive installation and interactive performance, as well as psycho-physical- social tools developed through the artist’s training and dialogue platform, PeoplesLab bridging our differences to build coalition.

CoLab: Performing for a Better World continues Dorit Cypis’ inquiry “who can we be to one another?”, adding the question “what is the color of whiteness?” This project extends from The Artist in Her Archive, initiated in 2021 as immersive performances mining a complex fabric of memory, identity and geopolitical histories triggered by her 50+ year artist archive of artworks, production materials, props and publications. Rooting these 2 projects is The Artist & Her Archive (looking for patterns), an artwork developed by the artist in 2010 while in residence at 18th Street Art Center.

The schedule for the afternoon is:

1 pm – Performance
2 pm – Dialogue
3 pm - Presentation with Karen Moss and Dorit Cypis

There will be a short break between each part. Please feel free to come for one, two or stay for all three. Light refreshments will be served.