Lecture Performance: 1-2 pm by Gordon Hall
Oct. 24 & 25, 1-2 pm
Photo by Alex Vanderheyden.
Photo by Olivia Cunnally.
Courtesy of Gordon Hall.
This fall, New York-based artist Gordon Hall presents 1–2 pm, a lecture-performance exploring waiting as both subject and method. Through understated, choreographed gestures, Hall transforms Scott Burton’s sculptural furniture into active participants, drawing connections between the late artist’s philosophy of seating and the architecture of waiting. In combining textual fragments, movement, and projected imagery, Hall reflects on the intersection of liminal time and the “politics of the chair.”
Two performances will take place at Wrightwood 659: Friday, October 24, 1–2 pm, and Saturday, October 25, 1–2 pm. Each will be followed by a brief conversation between the artist and Jess Wilcox, curator of Scott Burton: Shape Shift.
1-2 pm was first performed at the Pulitzer in 2024.
Speaker Bios
Gordon Hall is an artist whose work encompasses sculpture, performance, and writing. Their sculptures emerge from the world of furniture, and are often put to use by performing bodies who test out possible uses for Hall’s ambiguously functional objects. Hall has had solo presentations at The Kitchen, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, The Renaissance Society, EMPAC, and Temple Contemporary, among other venues. Hall is represented by DOCUMENT in North America and Hua International in Europe and Asia, and is Assistant Professor of Art at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Jess Wilcox, curator of Scott Burton: Shape Shift, is an independent curator with a focus on sculpture, ecocritical, and public art. She has held curatorial positions at Socrates Sculpture Park and the Brooklyn Museum and has curated dozens of group and single-artist exhibitions including Maren Hassinger: Steel Bodies, Helio Oiticica: PN15, Guadalupe Maravilla: Planeta Abuelx, MONUMENTS NOW, and AgitProp! She has a BA from Barnard College and a Master’s degree from Bard’s Center for Curatorial Studies.
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