Feb. 16 – Tang’s Dunkerley Dialogue features Artist Lauren Kelley, Performance by Autumn Knight

SARATOGA SPRINGS — The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College will present the next event in its Dunkerley Dialogue series at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 16 and celebrate the exhibition Lauren Kelley: Location Scouting with a talk and a performance.

Artist Lauren Kelley will be in dialogue with Skidmore Theater Artist-in-Residence Teisha Duncan. Since fall 2021, Kelley has reimagined the Tang mezzanine as a community space for conversation, dialogue, study, and contemplation. In her work, Kelley combines meditations on travel with snapshots of everyday life through drawing, sculpture, and stop-motion animation videos. Kelley has also activated the space through collaborations with sculptor Margarita Cabrera and animator Jennifer Levonian. 

Kelley was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1975. Her work has been shown at the Studio Museum in Harlem; The Kitchen, New York; The New Museum; and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; among others. From 2017 to 2020 she served as Director and Chief Curator of the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling in New York.

Duncan is an international actress, educator, and director from Xaymaca (Jamaica). Her sphere of interest and continual study includes storytelling, mask work and puppetry in rituals and performance, Caribbean theater, theater of Black Africa, pre-colonial African performance and post-colonial drama, and mythology in theater and Ancient Egypt. At Skidmore she is an Artist in Residence (Acting) in the Theater Department. 

A new collaboration begins this month with artist Autumn Knight, who will give a performance following the Dunkerley Dialogue of Nothing #12: tangy, in which the artist delivers a collaged text that uses sound, objects, and architecture to build a world around tangentially connected subject matter. 

Autumn Knight is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist working with performance, installation, video, and text. Knight’s video and performance work has been presented by various institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art and The Kitchen (NY). 

Dunkerley Dialogues pair Skidmore professors with artists in a conversation format, which is often a catalyst for new connections and understandings across disciplines and can spark new ideas for all participants. Dunkerley Dialogues are made possible by a generous gift from Michele Dunkerley ’80.

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Visitors Services Desk at 518-580-8080 or tang@skidmore.edu, or visit https://tang.skidmore.edu.