Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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Videos
Between Heaven and Earth
2016Between Heaven and Earth is a performance score that uses a map inscribed in the body by loss to explore scale, memory, “being-in-time,” and the history of locomotion. Over the course of 19 days, Davis ran 509 miles from Terminal 3 at O’Hare International Airport to secluded parcel of land outside Pittsburgh, according to the trajectory of an airplane that crashed between those two points, killing 132 people including his dad.
Added on: August 16, 2022
A Vessel for Carriage
2018Produced by Matty Davis and Peter Taub, A Vessel for Carriage is a site-specific presentation of Carriage aboard a moving vessel on the Chicago River. Carriage is a site-responsive performance by Matty Davis and Ben Gould that radically explores control and empathy. It is informed by evolving senses of the body – injury, trauma, healing, and growth – and draws from the variance of Davis and Gould’s distinct physicalities. The result is an intense, viscerally and sonically charged experience, where empathy is a physical tool, resistance offers stability, and we are all cast out into a space that levels us, brings us real fear, awakening, new vocabularies and physical structures.
Added on: August 24, 2022
Wood Bone Mill (Summer: Night)
2019Wood Bone Mill is a performance created by Matty Davis and Bryan Saner. It was presented under and within the limbs of a mulberry tree in Bryan’s yard in the Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer between 2017 and 2019. Moving through and responding to the seasons, Wood Bone Mill embodied an evolving meditation on aging, risk, trust, and community.
Added on: August 24, 2022
For the toward
2015This video is an edited excerpt of a guerilla-style performance of For the toward on the banks of the East River in New York City. For the toward was created by Matty Davis, Will Arbery, and Kora Radella between 2015 and 2017 with sculptures by Matty Davis. In For the toward, two people strain against crushing weight. They coax, ride, and hurl steel sculptures that are the result of relentless labor. Raw energy channeled into athletic grace is mirrored and reciprocally absorbed by the performers. As they navigate multiple forms of weight, alternately threatening and supportive, they attempt to create a bearable environment in which to exhale and endeavor.
Added on: August 24, 2022
Dislodge
Designed to take place in domestic spaces, Dislodge is a performance made with Eryka Dellenbach that critically examines power, control, and difference. Both animate and inanimate objects exert, sustain, and absorb vectors of force that probe precarious physical and psychological structures embodied by Davis and Dellenbach. Deliberately moving between different architectural and private spaces, the performance pushes against the contours of both individual and collective bodies, as well as the spaces we inhabit and their social codes. Boundaries are forcibly re-positioned through desire, force, and intimacy. Rigorously tuned choreography is pitted against improvisation, rendering the latter as an urgent and fragile frontier for human freedom and expression. Desire—to be changed, to go deeper, to be supported, to be radically free—engages a promise that must be continuously reinstated, trusted and fulfilled, or broken from one moment to the next. Single shot on Hi-8 video by Maren Celeste. For more information, please visit www.dislodge.spaceAdded on: August 23, 2022