Alice Gosti: Material Deviance in Contemporary Culture

Alice gosti with suitcases
October 17, 2019 - 6:00 PM to October 18, 2019 - 5:59 PM
October 18, 2019 - 6:00 PM to October 19, 2019 - 5:59 PM
Storrs Gallery

Material Deviance in Contemporary American Culture takes a sideways look at our object-based reality. Reflecting stuff-centered culture back to ourselves, this dream state passes through shame, nostalgia, patriotism, and the weight of inheritance. Choreographer and hybrid performance artist Alice Gosti asks, Do objects imbued with so much of our worth start to take over and take on a life of their own?

Gosti is an Italian-American choreographer and performance artist based in Seattle and Italy. In 2016 she received the prestigious National Dance Project from the New England Foundation for the Arts for the production and touring of Material Deviance in Contemporary American Culture. She will perform twice during the run of the gallery exhibition, on view October 14-November 15.

These performances are FREE and open to the public.

Photo by Tim Summers.

The presentation of Alice Gosti is made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 

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