Chrysa Parkinson

Afternoon Editions no. 2: text and drawings by Chrysa Parkinson titled Weaknesses. Between January and March 2019 Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine was presented as a solo-exhibition at Index Foundation in Stockholm. During this period Chrysa Parkinson was invited as a guest writer for Afternoon Editions. Weaknesses is a leap in memory.

DANCE AND DANCING explores the New York dance scene – past, present and future. It’s our first ever guest-edited issue compiled by New York based writer and artist Emma Hedditch.

Featuring: Mariana Valencia, Cynthia Oliver, Marlies Yearby, Laurie Carlos, Chrysa Parkinson, devynn emory, the skeleton architecture, Discwoman, Svetlana Kitto, Jonah Groeneboer, Dona Ann McAdams, Lydia Okrent, Kim Brandt, kara lynch, Effie Bowen, Mary Manning, Res, Leah Gilliam, Amelia Bande, Luciana Achugar, Emily Wexler, Ayo Janeen Jackson, Suzan D. Polat, Mina Nishimura, Ursula Eagly, Emmakate Geisdorf, Angie Pittman, Lerato Khathi, Yvonne Meier and Aunts.

Drawing on his experience in the field of contemporary dance, Jeroen Peeters discusses principles, methods and practices that contribute to an understanding of dramaturgy as an experimental, collaborative practice and a material form of thinking.

Written from practice, this book reflects a particular history of collaboration and conversation with dance-makers such as Martin Nachbar, Meg Stuart, Vera Mantero, Sabina Holzer, Lisa Nelson, Jennifer Lacey, Chrysa Parkinson, deufert + plischke, Eleanor Bauer, Philipp Gehmacher and many others.

Phantasmal archaeology, unfolding material, literal and physical reading, crafting method, articulating process, witnessing and performing not-knowing, naming and ritual destruction, conceptual landscapes, symbolic waste, internal fictions and foreign objects – they may all play a role in creation and in exploring the unfamiliar in pursuit of making sense.

And then it got legs is an invitation to think along or against, to discuss those ideas with others or explore them in the studio, and eventually to imagine and devise one’s own methods of research, observation, reflection and creation.