backstory: “Hard Return” and a Vogue Ball
We opened our performance art show, Hard Return: 9 Experiments for this Moment, today and I wanted to let you know about a special event later this week.
Our first artist, Brendan Fernandes, created a project for Hard Return that features vogue artist and Pose cast member Jason Rodriguez and an ensemble of Purchase College student dancers performing dance pieces and engaging in conversations in response to African art in the Neuberger collection.
On Friday, between 4 and 7pm, Brendan will host a Vogue Ball in collaboration with Purchase College’s Queer People of Color (QPOC) Club. Influenced by expressions of gender and performance that flourished in the Black Queer scene of 1980s New York City, the Ball is open to the public. Come watch - or participate. There are vogue categories: Hand/Arm Performance, Catwalk, Duckwalk, Spins & Dips, and Floor Performance. Or create your own category. The space is a forum for the creation and appreciation of identities.
Hope you can stop by.
Tracy Fitzpatrick
Director, Neuberger Museum of Art
Find me on Twitter @tracyfitzart
Hard Return: 9 Experiments for this Moment is organized by the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY, and co-curated by Purchase College faculty members Kate Gilmore, a renowned performance artist, and Jonah Westerman, an art historian who specializes in performance art.
Generous financial support for this exhibition has been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Friends of the Neuberger Museum of Art, and the Purchase College Foundation. Additional support of the student participation in Hard Return has been provided by Ivan Bart & Grant Greenberg and Ava & Paul Zukowsky.