Douglas Dunn and Gibson+Recoder

CORNER

2019

Hardbound, 108 pages, 162 color images
9 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches

Printed in an edition of 500

CORNER is a uniquely designed book with film stills by Gibson + Recoder and photographs by Paula Court documenting Douglas Dunn’s restaged performance of his 1973 work, Time Out. With essays by Dunn, Gibson + Recoder, and Brice Brown.

Related: Electric Shadows; Contours / Vain Combat; Dance Takeover; BODY / SHADOW

Douglas Dunn has been dancing and making dances for forty-six years. He has set pieces for many companies besides his own, including the Paris Opera Ballet, and has composed numerous outdoor and site-specific events. He is renowned as a teacher of Technique and of Open Structures, with a long tenure at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Awards include a Guggenheim, a Bessie, and Chevalier in the Ordres des Arts et des Lettres. Douglas produces Salons at his studio in Soho, and is a Board Member Emeritus of Danspace Project.

Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder have been exhibiting their expanded cinema installations and performances since 2000. Their works are in the permanent collections of major museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, and Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf, Germany. Artist awards and commissions include The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Italy, National Endowment for the Art’s U.S.-Japan Creative Artists Fellowship, and Madison Square Park Conservancy in New York.

Paula Court lives and works in New York City.