To close the loom portal, please join lily and collaborators for an in-progress evening of experimental dance with live electronic sound, a research offering from their time in residence.

Doors open at 1:00, performance at 1:30
Q+A to follow
Masks required

RSVP for this closing performance  here

Accessibility: Bushel is an ADA accessible space with a bathroom. Please contact us if you have questions or concerns. We want to know your access needs!

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About ‘Shape of the Question’

From August 23 – September 22, 2024, lily gold and collaborators will weave themselves, along with paper, fabric, and other material into a weight bearing loom that stretches from the floor to the rafters. Visitors are invited to weave themselves into the installation with their voices, bodies, and presence as well as materials from their homes and communities.

“shape of the question is a ritual, residency, artifact and performance experiment that encourages viewers and participants to live in the soft edges of resistance. in continued exploration of recycled paper as body, from my chronically ill perspective, this work highlights the labor it takes to refuse engines of production, transmute internalized ableism, and repattern societal taboos in order to rest. by slowing down, we collectively destabilize the notion that our value is tied to our productivity, and ask: who and what holds us in our necessary unraveling? shape of the question is a space to be in prayer, wonder, rage, grief, rest, play, and interconnection with each other and our more-than-human kin.” —lily gold

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lily gold is a white, queer, chronically ill, fourth-generation new yorker of the anti-zionist jewish diaspora. as a choreographer, artist, performer, organizer, and witch, lily is accountable to larger liberatory movements and is constantly investigating what disruption looks like inside creative practice. working with attention to the deep interconnectedness of humans, lily’s work aims to fortify and uplift the how the power of collectivity does not necessitate likeness. lily turns to interoceptive curiosity to attune the forces of nature and the more than living, and their practices straddle the limits of spiritual and material realms. lily’s interdisciplinary work has been presented by Danspace Project, First Street Gallery, MoMA/Judson Memorial Church, and Movement Research, among others. lily has been an artist in residence at Movement Research, AUNTS, ZIL Cultural Center, Snug Harbor, BAX, Bennington College, CEC ArtsLink and Lower Manhattan Cultural Center. as a dancer, lily has collaborated with Andrea Geyer, Larissa Velez-Jackson, Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born, Tere O’Connor, Vicky Shick, and Walter Dundervill, among others. lily is also a somatic experiencing practitioner (SEP) and facilitator, following an unfolding path of somatic healing through an abolitionist and anti-oppression framework. since 2019, lily lives and works with the occupied lands of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy in Walton, NY, and remains in relationship with their community and performance home in NYC.

Martita Abril (Pichu) (performing collaborator) is from the border city of Tijuana, México. She has performed and collaborated with artists including Lux Boreal, Kim Brandt, Cristina Baquerizo, Yanira Castro, Yoshiko Chuma, Milka Djordjevich, Tess Dworman, Rebecca Davis, Devynn Emory, Daria Fain and Robert Kocik, Kat Galasso, Allyson Green, Abigail Levine, Jennifer Monson, Mina Nishimura, Cori Olinghouse, Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born, Will Rawls and Andros Zins-Browne, David Thompson, Larissa Velez-Jackson, and Cathy Weis. She was a performer in Simone Forti’s Dance Constructions, the Handles exhibition by Haegue Yang, and most recently the Joan Jonas: Mirrors I & II piece at the Museum of Modern Art. Martita was part of the Fresh Tracks Residency at New York Live Arts (NYLA), Dance and Process at The Kitchen and currently she is an Artist-in-Residence at Movement Research (MR) funded in part by Mertz Gilmore Foundation. She is the MR at the Judson Memorial Church Program Manager, the Trisha Brown Dance Company’s Tour Manager, and continues to mentor Immigrant artists as part of the NYFA Coaching program. Martita co-curates In/Between, the yearly exhibition for Immigrant Artists originally created in 2019 by artists Yanira Castro, Martita, and Poppy DeltaDawn at NYLA and guides workshops in Bushwick gardens for Spanish speaking familias who recently arrived to NYC, through the iLAND (Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art Nature and Dance) program by Jennifer Monson.

opal ingle (installation collaborator) is an artist based in the woods of the western Catskills/on the homelands of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and New York City/Lenapehoking. Some of their current creative practices involve communing with trees, growing and arranging flowers and writing queer speculative fiction. As a performer they have collaborated with Heather Kravas, Tere O’Connor, and Neil Greenberg, among others.

dani derks (electronics) is part of the day-to-day operations at monome in upstate NY, assembling both instruments and documentation for ways to engage with them. They build code through improvisation, creating their own environments for playful and exploratory music performance gestures. dndrks.com