Portland Art Museum

The Portland Art Museum will present Still Life as a live dance installation in partnership with the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art’s Time-based Arts Festival. Still Life uses extinction as source material. The dancer, a-body-in-life, will practice/perform with totality, living a small death when drafting ideas of decay, stillness, and the loss of verticality. The choreography, a dance/time cycle, erases material each time it is repeated during 7 hours of performance each day over 5 days. Contrary to the museum's role of freezing time, Still Life implicates the present moment as a point of no return, and proposes embodied public mourning through live performance.