#  Perspectives on Performance with Nick Mauss 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **November 14, 2023** 

 06:30PM - 08:00PM EST 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Farkas Hall, Room 203, 12 Holyoke St., Cambridge, MA**  



 

 



 

 Perspectives on Performance welcomes artist Nick Mauss for his artist talk, "Staging Archives of Gestures." This event is co-presented with the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, and presented with the support of the Provostial Funds for the Arts and Humanities.

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 **ABOUT NICK MAUSS**

   ![Nick Mauss side profile](/sites/g/files/omnuum6821/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/tdm/files/nickprofbw8bit.jpg?itok=3oSxHPaP) 

 

 Nick Mauss is an artist based in New York. His exhibition *Transmissions* at the Whitney Museum of American Art catalyzed a new poetics of the archive and historiography through highly innovative work with dancers, curators, art historians, conservators, artworks, collectors, librarians, artists, costume makers, exhibition designers--where the entire infrastructure of making exhibitions was treated through the lens of performance.

 Recent exhibitions include *Bizarre Silks, Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts, etc.* at Kunsthalle Basel (2019); and *Intricate Others* at Fundação de Serralves, Porto (2017). Mauss has intervened in exhibitions including the 2012 Whitney Biennial; *Transcorporealities* at Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2019), *Florine Stettheimer* at the Lenbachhaus, Munich (2014), and *Designing Dreams: a Celebration of Léon Bakst* (2016) and *Christian Bérard: Eccentrique Bébé* (2022) at the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco. As part of the 2019 Performa Biennial, Mauss participated in the reconstruction of Yvonne Rainer's *1965 Parts of Some Sextets*, dancing the role originated for Robert Morris, and realizing a book with Rainer and Emily Coates about the complex process of restaging a work of dance in a way that brings historical paradigm shifts to bear visibly in the present. Mauss' most recent book (co-authored with Angela Miller), *Body Language: The Queer Staged Photographs of George Platt Lynes and PaJaMa*, has just come out from University of California Press; and a volume of his selected writings is forthcoming from After 8 Books, Paris.

 Photo courtesy of Nick Mauss.



 

 



 

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