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Performance 14: On Line/Ralph Lemon

Jan 26–30, 2011

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Ralph Lemon. Untitled. 2008. Performed at The Museum of Modern Art, 2011. With Okwui Okpokwasili. © 2011 Yi-Chun Wu/The Museum of Modern Art
  • MoMA, Floor 2, Marron Atrium The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium

MoMA’s Performance Exhibition Series presents a program of live performance and dance in conjunction with the group exhibition On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century. The dancing body has long been a subject matter for drawing, as seen in a variety of works included in this exhibition. These documentations show dance in two dimensions, allowing it to be seen in a gallery setting. But if one considers line as the trace of a point in motion—an idea at the core of this project—the very act of dance becomes a drawing, an insertion of line into time and the three-dimensional space of our lived world.

January 26, 29, & 30

Performance 14: On Line/Ralph Lemon
Untitled (2008), featuring Ralph Lemon and Okwui Okpokwasili

Organized by Cornelia H. Butler, The Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings at MoMA, and Catherine de Zegher, former director, The Drawing Center, New York, with Jenny Schlenzka, Assistant Curator for Performance, Department of Media and Performance Art.

  • Download the On Line/Performance brochure

    • The Performance Exhibition Series is made possible by MoMA’s Wallis Annenberg Fund for Innovation in Contemporary Art through the Annenberg Foundation.

    Publications

    • Ralph Lemon By Thomas J. Lax, 2016 Paperback, 168 pages
    • Press release 4 pages

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