The Sustainability Project in schools
J. Bouey interviewed me for a short article for DanceTeacher online regarding The Sustainability Project and my course Artists Sustainability.
Marking the Occasion
Marking the Occasion, the book, represents the final movement in a year-long engagement with the question, "Can a performance be a rough draft of a written work?" This publication also marks the events of 2020, and traces their reverberations through each artist's practice as time, movement, action, and collaboration take on new meanings. ...
Trisha Brown Archives
In September 2020, the New York Public Library's Performing Arts Division acquired the archives of Trisha Brown. I had the pleasure of collaborating with Cori Olinghouse and later Ben Houtman, as the TBC archives technical consultant, designing the database that housed the interrelated information for the ephemera of Brown's archive.
ECHO EXHIBIT
I had the pleasure of participating in Asiya Wadud's Echo Exhibit.
My collaboration with Chia-Lun Chang chosen as one of the poems exhibited in Lower Manhattan.
Even the Stars Look Lonesome
Sharjah Biennial 14, United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Collaboration with Caecilia Tripp 5-screen film installation, copper sculpture
TEDx Asbury Park | Life is a Dance
May 19, 2018
9am
Paramount Theatre
1300 Ocean Avenue
Asbury Park, NJ
The 6th edition of TEDxAsburyPark will be themed ‘Passion.
Rauschenberg Residency
RESIDENCY 30: MARCH 5-APRIL 6, 2018 The Rauschenberg Residency is a creative center that welcomes artists of all disciplines from around the world to live, work, and create. The residency is located on Robert Rauschenberg’s former property on Captiva Island, Florida, where he lived and worked for nearly four decades. The facility, which includes the 8,000-square-foot studio Rauschenberg built in 1992 and a collection of historic homes and...
he his own mythical beast: Installation Videos
These videos were created as part of the development of he his own mythical beast, which premiered at Performance Space New York in January 2018. These videos serve as complementary work to the process and performance, and as a means of reformulating research and materials as further commentary on the mythologies of race and perception. These videos were...
Art AIDS America | Bronx Museum
The first comprehensive overview of 30 years of art made in response to the AIDS epidemic in the United States
Opening night performance
Wednesday, July 13th
2nd floor North Wing
7:15pm
Look up here, I’m in heaven
BRIC Arts Media
July 6, 2016 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
“A thing that is hoped or wished for but in fact is illusory or impossible to achieve.”
Performances by exhibition artist David Antonio Cruz, and artists Jaamil Olawale Kosoko and David Thomson that explore contradictions in identity, freedom, and materiality of the black/brown body.
Tanz Farm presents Malcolm Low | In the thrust towards the future (2015)
March 26-28, 2015
Tanz Farm
Atlanta, GA
Malcolm Low's
In the thrust towards the future…I want to leave something of use
Venus Rising: Seeing through Blackness, Laughing Through Whiteness
A collaboration with the artist Tony Whitfield. Initiated as a somewhat traditional interaction between photographer and model, this work represents the unexpected intersection of distinctly different artistic practices and has become phase one in a collaboration between choreographer/performance artist David Hamilton Thomson and artist/designer Tony Whitfield exploring maturation in an idiosyncratic racialized body.
Venus Redux (2014)
During a two-week residency at The Invisible Dog, I focused on building new material, setting a structure, creating text to overlay, and continuing to explore a 360° performance field.
Mash (2013)
March 25 ,2013
Movement Research at Judson
conceived and directed by David Thomson
performed by Anna Azrieli, Marya Wethers, Malcolm Low, Jodi Bender
Hunger (2012)
June 24 ,2012
Movement Research at Judson Church
conceived & directed by david thomson
movement by david thomson
text by okwui okpokwasili
performed by david thomson & okwui okpokwasili
Alain Buffard | Baron Samedi (2012)
Premiered in April 2012 at the Théâtre de Nîmes in France, Alain Buffard’s Baron Samedi is named after a Haitian “Vaudou” spirit. A tutelary figure for the work, Baron Samedi invokes ghosts, extracts the perfect dancing body and is a symbol of visibility in life and invisibility in death. Buffard continues his longstanding connection with...
Parallels: The End (2012)
March 30 ,2012
Danspace Project
Parallels: The End
Solo conceived and performed by David Thomson
Ralph Lemon curated this closing event inviting twelve performers into a marathon event.
Velvet (2012)
February 3, 2012
Roulette
a collaboration/introduction....including mayhem, desire, thoughts and consequences
One-Shot #2 (2010)
One-Shot is a video relay
One-Shot is a solo performance relay for the internet curated by Sarah Maxfield and produced in collaboration with the Gibney Dance Center.
Considering an Exhibition (2009)
A photographer wrestles with his conscience in his small attic studio at night. In a crisis of faith, he keeps returning to his stark black-and-white images for proof that what he does matters. After a bath, image and reality merge into a new beginning. By Marta Renzi, with David Hamilton Thomson, camera Jake Goldwasser, photos...
Bear Lake (2007)
After my father passed away a friend, Warren Muller, invited me to stay with him in the Poconos to heal and breathe. He introduced me to James Brown, who ran a store out there. He closed the shop early and took us to Bear Lake for a swim. This is a document of a...
51st (dream) state: The Aftermath (2006)
from Sekou Sundiata's 51st (dream) state (2006)
51st (dream) State is nationally acclaimed poet Sekou Sundiata’s contemplation of America’s national identity, power in the world and guiding mythologies. The work, which Sundiata imagined as his poetic and personal “State of the American Soul Address,” explores how America defines itself in a new era characterized by unprecedented...
Hotel Civilization (2006)
51st (dream) State is nationally acclaimed poet Sekou Sundiata’s contemplation of America’s national identity, power in the world and guiding mythologies.
51st (dream) state: Fully Human (2006)
from Sekou Sundiata's 51st (dream) state
Conceived and written by Sekou Sundiata
Landing/Place motion capture
Here is a sample of some footage from some tests we did at Ohio State University’s Lab while working on Bebe Miller’s Landing/Place.
Home (2002)
This project was inspired by an issue of 2wice Magazine and the desire to revisit the meaning of home. I created the blueprint and designed a series of houses with an inserted ‘welcome mat’ the would unroll to reveal the text as you followed the pointing finger. These homes were made and then sent off to...