MoMA Museum of Modern Art

Performance 14: On Line/Ralph Lemon

26 - 30 Jan 2011

View of the performance, "Performance 14: On Line/Ralph Lemon," in conjunction
with the exhibition, "On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century"
January 26, 2011–January 30, 2011. IN2144.8. Photograph by Yi-Chun Wu.
MoMA’s Performance Exhibition Series presents a program of live performance and dance in conjunction with the group exhibition On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century. The dancing body has long been a subject matter for drawing, as seen in a variety of works included in this exhibition. These documentations show dance in two dimensions, allowing it to be seen in a gallery setting. But if one considers line as the trace of a point in motion—an idea at the core of this project—the very act of dance becomes a drawing, an insertion of line into time and the three-dimensional space of our lived world.