Carolyn Lazard: Long Take

Carolyn Lazard: Long Take is a multimedia exhibition that begins with a score for a performance and unfolds as a series of interventions that engage accessibility as an artistic material.

Made in collaboration with dancer Jerron Herman and poet and artist Joselia Rebekah Hughes, the central work, Leans, Reverses (2022), emerges from the relationship between a dance performance, its recording, and transcription (a choreographic score, captions, and audio description). The installation includes two additional works which are created anew at each showing based on the artist’s instructions. Institutional Seat (2022) modifies a standard bench from the museum’s galleries into a version that is more comfortable for all museum visitors. Surround Sound (2022) attends to the floor of the gallery with dance-floor materials. Over the course of the exhibition, this floor will collect marks made by visitors’ shoes, strollers, and wheelchair treads, like another form of tally or notation.

Carolyn Lazard (b. 1987) is a New York-based artist whose primary medium is iteration. They also work across video, sculpture, installation, and performance. Their practice remembers the generative incapacity of debility. 

Carolyn Lazard: Long Take is organized by the Cantor Arts Center, presenting work originally co-commissioned by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania; and Nottingham Contemporary, and is curated by Christina Linden, Director of Academic and Public Programs. We gratefully acknowledge support from The Lynn Krywick Gibbons Gallery Exhibitions Fund at the Cantor Arts Center.