(AGENPARL) – ven 17 marzo 2023 River will debut at the Whitney and is the most recent installment of Hughes’s multidisciplinary series inspired by death care.
https://whitney.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=387f59a72ae7b64ccae37d5c9&id=9cab047c57&e=59415c6e7e
https://whitney.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=387f59a72ae7b64ccae37d5c9&id=73d6eba3d6&e=59415c6e7e
RIVER, A PERFORMANCE BY ARTIST EVERY OCEAN HUGHES, PREMIERES ON MARCH 24 AT THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
The performance will be presented from Friday, March 24, to Sunday, March 26, in the Museum’s Susan and John Hess Family Theater.
New York, NY, March 17, 2023 — Debuting on March 24, as part of the exhibition Every Ocean Hughes: Alive Side, River (2023) is the latest installment in a series of performances by multidisciplinary artist Every Ocean Hughes that explore themes of legacy, loss, and inheritance. This performance, commissioned by the Whitney, is inspired by Hughes’s examinations of death care. Hughes, who trained as a death doula pre-pandemic in 2019, centers self-determination, social interrelation, and the promises of community and collaboration through various mediums, including performance, photography, film, music, text, and set design.
[River](https://whitney.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=387f59a72ae7b64ccae37d5c9&id=94fa42dca2&e=59415c6e7e), reimagines mythological crossings to other worlds through song, text, choreographed movement, and set design. The artist merges the trope of descending into the underworld—a recurring motif in ancient mythologies—with the porous, transcultural frame of the “crossing.” She emphasizes the term’s dual meanings, which denote the ability to travel between one world and another, along with the thresholds that permit entry and return. This performance draws references from the piers that lined the West Side of Manhattan, which are depicted in the photo installation of The Piers Untitled, currently on view at the Whitney.
Every Ocean Hughes: Alive Side is on view through April 2, 2023, and is organized by Adrienne Edwards, Engell Speyer Family Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, with CJ Salapare, Curatorial Assistant.
Live Performance Listings
River
Friday, March 24, 2023, 7 pm
Saturday, March 25, 2023, 4 pm and 7 pm
Sunday, March 26, 2023, 4 pm
Location: The Susan and John Hess Family Theater, Whitney Museum of American Art
Tickets: Tickets are available on whitney.org.
Event Link: [whitney.org/events/every-ocean-hughes-river-4pm](https://whitney.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=387f59a72ae7b64ccae37d5c9&id=e4e08556a0&e=59415c6e7e)
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Every Ocean Hughes (b. 1977 in Easton, Maryland; lives and works between Easton and Stockholm, Sweden), formerly known as Emily Roysdon, is a multidisciplinary artist and writer. For over twenty years, she has shaped an artistic practice around her ongoing interrogations of life and liveness, reimagining their terms, conditions, and possibilities for connection. Addressing these elemental concerns has required a fluid, rather than fixed, set of approaches, which Hughes embodies through her prolific collaborations, expansive takes on queer life and communities, and use of mediums such as performance, photography, video, and text. She has served as editor and co-founder of the queer feminist journal and artist collective LTTR, written lyrics for several bands, and designed costumes for choreographers.
The artist has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Studio Voltaire, London (2022); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2022); Secession, Vienna (2015); and PARTICIPANT INC., New York (2015). She has been commissioned to create work for Tate Modern, London (2012, 2017); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2014); and The Kitchen, New York (2010). Group exhibitions include the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2023, 2014); Hammer Museum and Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2021); Future Generation Art Prize at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2010); and the Whitney Biennial (2010).
Hughes was a 2019–20 fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. From 2013 to 2021, she was a professor of fine art at Konstfack University College of Art, Craft, and Design in Stockholm. Currently, she is the 2021–23 Sachs Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
PRESS CONTACT
For press materials and image requests, please visit our press site at whitney.org/press or contact:
Ashley Reese, Director of Communications
Whitney Museum of American Art
(212) 671-1846
Whitney Press Office
whitney.org/press
(212) 570-3633
ABOUT THE WHITNEY
The Whitney Museum of American Art, founded in 1930 by the artist and philanthropist Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), houses the foremost collection of American art from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Mrs. Whitney, an early and ardent supporter of modern American art, nurtured groundbreaking artists when audiences were still largely preoccupied with the Old Masters. From her vision arose the Whitney Museum of American Art, which has been championing the most innovative art of the United States for ninety years. The core of the Whitney’s mission is to collect, preserve, interpret, and exhibit American art of our time and serve a wide variety of audiences in celebration of the complexity and diversity of art and culture in the United States. Through this mission and a steadfast commitment to artists, the Whitney has long been a powerful force in support of modern and contemporary art and continues to help define what is innovative and influential in American art today.
VISITOR INFORMATION
The Whitney Museum of American Art is located at 99 Gansevoort Street between Washington and West Streets, New York City. Public hours are: Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 10:30 am–6 pm; Friday, 10:30 am–10 pm; and Saturday and Sunday, 10:30 am–6 pm. Closed Tuesday. Visitors eighteen years and under and Whitney members: FREE. Admission is pay-what-you-wish on Fridays, 7–10 pm. COVID-19 vaccination and face coverings are not required but strongly recommended. We encourage all visitors to wear face coverings that cover the nose and mouth throughout their visit.
Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street New York, NY 10014
[whitney.org](https://whitney.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=387f59a72ae7b64ccae37d5c9&id=6bdadc1de6&e=59415c6e7e)
[Forward](https://us13.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=387f59a72ae7b64ccae37d5c9&id=8442eff5a3&e=59415c6e7e) this email to a friend.
[Unsubscribe](https://whitney.us13.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=387f59a72ae7b64ccae37d5c9&id=2d1244a32b&e=59415c6e7e&c=8442eff5a3) from all Whitney emails.
Image credit:
Every Ocean Hughes. Photo by Ma?rta Thisner