Will Rawls: Artist Talk

Join BOFFO as we welcome Will Rawls to Fire Island at their Artist Talk! Will Rawls will discuss his experiments with stop motion animation involving live dancers, featuring excerpts from select projects. 

Will Rawls is an artist and choreographer whose multidisciplinary practice explores the ambiguities of Blackness—its visibility and erasure, its performance and abstraction—to reframe the relationship between language and the body. In 2016, he co-curated Lost and Found, a six-week program of performances and artist projects at Danspace Project focused on the intergenerational impact of HIV/AIDS on dancers, women, and people of color. Based in New York and Los Angeles, he is Associate Professor of Choreography in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at the University of California, Los Angeles and lectures widely in academic and community contexts. In addition, his work has been exhibited across the U.S., including at The Kitchen, New York; Institute for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; 35th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; MoMA PS1, New York; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR; The Chocolate Factory Theater, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Institute of Contemporary Art Boston; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven.