Ruth Childs and Cécile Bouf­fard start­ed the project del­i­cate peo­ple in 2021 as a col­lab­o­ra­tion between their respec­tive dis­ci­plines: dance and sculp­ture. ​“Del­i­cate” describes both Bouffard’s illus­trat­ed fig­ures and Childs’s cre­ative process — the fine tun­ing nec­es­sary to an evolv­ing chore­o­graph­ic sto­ry. Both artists cul­ti­vate intu­ition and inde­ter­mi­na­cy, fos­ter­ing the sus­pen­sion of judg­ment through a series of […]

Join Cli­mate Imag­i­nar­i­um and Earth Mat­ter for a night of myth­mak­ing, cel­e­bra­tion, and repro­duc­tive jus­tice on Gov­er­nor’s Island. The Col­lec­tive Womb is a matri­ar­chal cre­ation sto­ry in which abor­tion is rec­og­nized as a nat­ur­al exchange of ener­gy between the body and the earth. Staged on a large mound of soil, the per­for­mance cel­e­brates the macro-scale […]