Sequels

Institute: Gatewood Gallery
Role: Artist
Collaborators: Caitlyn Shrader, K.T. Williams, Andres Morales, Sarah Laponte, Rylee Harsell, Trey Vanterpool
When: January 10th - February 11th, 2022
 

Deconstructed pieces of the Gatewood Gallery at UNC Greensboro are reconstituted into a series of new Gatewood Galleries, each created for and in context to specific UNCG artists, art practices, and artworks. Whether it be a set for a dance performance, a bed for an artist's home, or a vessel for a participatory sculpture, these novel autonomous spaces reimagine how an art gallery appears and functions by permitting it to be shifted and shaped by the unique needs and priorities of those the institution is meant to serve. Featuring School of Art MFA student Sarah Laponte, School of Dance MFA students Caitlyn Shrader and K.T. Williams, School of Music MM student Andres Morales, School of Art Alumni Trey Vanterpool and Rylee Hartsell, and more.

Power Tools and Party Tricks 

Concept and performance by:
Caitlyn Schrader and K.T. Williams, UNCG School of Dance MFA Candidates
Created in conversation with: Adam Carlin

Schrader's research orbits around the broader consideration of what is performance. More pointedly she is interested in reframing, rethinking, and reconsidering from an interdisciplinary perspective, whether it be the classroom, creative spaces, or performative products. 

Williams’ choreographic research relies on making work that dynamically blends concert dance, experiential performance, and interdisciplinary collaboration. She considers dance as a site for collective transformation, and explores virtuosity in blending highly physical movement with intentional, functional performance tasks.

Schrader and Williams find kinship in collaborative, interdisciplinary performance that examines dance as a shared human experience and fueled by a curiosity around how art, specifically dance, is both crafted and considered. 

In this durational performance series Schrader and Williams play with tension through opposition, notions of deconstruction and reconstruction, and the various implications of labor, while embodying these ideas through their feminine identities. Viewers are invited to consider, how do you choose to see what you see?