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Rethinking performance, exhibition and documentation through dance

From dance experimentations in the 70s to more recent performance-exhibitions, what does it mean to look at dance in a visual art context?

3 Apr 2023

Celina Lei

Performing Arts

Shelley Lasica, ‘WHEN I AM NOT THERE’, co-commissioned by Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, supported by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council and the Art Gallery of New South Wales support partner Atelier © Shelley Lasica. Photo: Jacqui Shelton.

In recent months we have seen numerous dance performances and movement-based works taking place in galleries and museums.

This past week has seen Lucy Guerin Inc celebrating 21 years of choreographic practice at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA).

Last year Shelley Lasica presented the first iteration of WHEN I AM NOT THERE at the Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) and it will be reimagined at the Art Gallery of NSW (AGNSW) from 22 May.

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Celina Lei

Celina Lei is an arts writer and editor at ArtsHub. She acquired her M.A in Art, Law and Business in New York with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne.