Gathering
Exhibition and Performance
December 2-11, 2021
Goethe-Institut Boston
170 Beacon Street, Boston
Opening Performance and Reception
Thursday, December 2, 6-8 pm
Finissage
Sunday, December 12, 2-4 pm
Gallery Hours
Saturday December 4, 2-4 pm
Sunday December 5, 2-4 pm
Thursday December 9, 6-8pm
Saturday December 11, 2-4pm
Sunday December 12, 2-4pm
Supported by the Goethe-Institut Boston, Gathering marks an important continuation in Smith’s work, emphasizing temporality, from the ephemeral to the sculptural. As is characteristic of his singular creations, Smith uses raw form materials (e.g., beeswax, clay, ash) for large-scale, process-based, and performance-aligned works.
Kayva Yang is a New York-based artist who explores body to land intimacy and regeneration through performance, photography, archival materials, and site-specific movement research. Her current projects, Lost 40 and Elastic Elm, investigate extraction, interiority, and indigeneity specific to a boreal forest and a city boulevard. She is a 2020 Create Change Fellow of the Laundromat Project and received grants in 2017 from the Jerome Foundation and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Her completed project, Body in Flora (2016) was exhibited at New York University Kimmel Center and performed at Intermedia Arts and Southern Theater in Minneapolis. She also performs for other choreographers including Jill Sigman/ thinkdance and dustin maxwell and formerly danced for Aniccha Arts and Ananya Dance Theatre. Yang is an independent producer and content creator for performing arts organizations. She holds an M.A. in Arts Politics from New York University Tisch School of the Arts.