Kate Holcomb Hale

COLLABORATION

lean, STAND, Collapse

single channel video, 6 min

featuring Nora Stephens + MacKenzie LeTorré

music by Derek Nievergelt


Beginning in 2022 Kate began an ongoing collaboration with the performers MacKenzie LeTorré and Nora Stephens. Their multi-disciplinary collaboration for the Danforth Art Museum centered around the dining table as surrogate/placeholder for the body and the corporeal experience. In this project live performance, dance, video, stop-motion animation and soft sculpture interweave to provoke questions around invisibility, presence and ephemerality. Their boundary blurring collaboration with/in Kate’s studio, home and the museum space magnifies the weight of invisible labor on individuals and families while reminding us that through care we can help support and heal one another.

WE ALWAYS GET BACK UP

live dance performance by MacKenzie LeTorré 

and Nora Stephens on January 14, 2024