- Cost
- Free | Registration encouraged
Please note that the performances move throughout the building. Space for each session is limited. - Event Location
- Kogod Courtyard
- Categories
- After Five
- Performances
- Building
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Part of series
Join artists Mariam Ghani and Erin Ellen Kelly as they trace a choreographic journey with local performers throughout SAAM’s National Historic Landmark building. This newly commissioned piece is the latest addition to their ongoing collaboration, Performed Places (2006-present), which excavates layers of history, memory, and meaning embedded in significant sites.
Framed by the historical architecture, this performance is staged to embody past experiences through movement and sound. Go back in time and experience milestones in the life of the building, including its cornerstone being laid in 1836 as the US Patent Office, hosting President Lincoln’s second inauguration, serving as a Civil War hospital, and its present-day role housing two national art collections.
Please note that the performances move throughout the building. Space for each session is limited.
Attendees can also view an earlier Performed Places project, When the Spirits Moved Them, They Moved (2019) in SAAM’s current exhibition Musical Thinking: New Video Art and Sonic Strategies.
This program received federal support from the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum.
Image Credit: Mariam Ghani and Erin Ellen Kelly, A Brief History of Collapses from the Performed Places series (2-channel HD video with 7.1 channel sound, 2011, 22:10min), staged in the Museum Fridericianum, Germany.
Framed by the historical architecture, this performance is staged to embody past experiences through movement and sound. Go back in time and experience milestones in the life of the building, including its cornerstone being laid in 1836 as the US Patent Office, hosting President Lincoln’s second inauguration, serving as a Civil War hospital, and its present-day role housing two national art collections.
Please note that the performances move throughout the building. Space for each session is limited.
Attendees can also view an earlier Performed Places project, When the Spirits Moved Them, They Moved (2019) in SAAM’s current exhibition Musical Thinking: New Video Art and Sonic Strategies.
This program received federal support from the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum.
Image Credit: Mariam Ghani and Erin Ellen Kelly, A Brief History of Collapses from the Performed Places series (2-channel HD video with 7.1 channel sound, 2011, 22:10min), staged in the Museum Fridericianum, Germany.
