Saturday, February 11, 2012 | 10 a.m.–5 p.m. | Seventeenth Street entrance to the Corcoran Gallery of Art
“In celebration of 30 Americans, the artist Holly Bass will give a seven-hour performance on the second to last day of the exhibition.
Wearing a pompadour hairstyle, a polyester jumpsuit, a satin cummerbund embellished with rhinestones spelling out $€X, and “bootyballs”—an oversized sculptural derriere—Bass will dance on a “performance bridge” designed by architect Kashuo Bennett for the doorway of the Corcoran. (Visitors will literally have to walk under Bass to enter the Gallery). The choreography is built from a structured improvisation guided by the playlist, which ranges from hip-hop tracks and classic James Brown recordings to speeches by Malcolm X and clips from a BBC radio documentary on Sarah “Saartjie” Baartman, a southern African woman who was displayed in 19th-century Europe under the name Hottentot Venus.
If you cannot make it to the Corcoran, then be sure to watch the livestream!”
(Source: projectbeltway.com)
