Janine Antoni & Stephen Petronio | Entangle: On the Table | April 6-30

On April 6, the second installment of Stephen Petronio and Janine Antoni’s collaboration at the Tang Teaching Museum, On the Table, opens to the public. The interactive installation will be open through April 30.

On the Table is an invitation to come together. The gallery is at once a set and a dining room, featuring a tablecloth woven out of 200 neckties. Twelve ties extend out from the table allowing them to be worn while eating and talking, literally connecting the guests at the table with the fabric web of the tablecloth. Throughout a single month, the Tang will host four dinners at the table in the gallery space, each with a different topic of conversation. Tom Yoshikami, Museum Educator for College and Public Programs, will organize this series of dinners with students, based on issues they feel are important. The artists will be on campus to visit with classes and participate in the first dinner from April 3 – 7. Between dinners, the installation will be offered to the community as a tool for dialogue. Gallery goers will be encouraged to invite guests of their choice, at times they determine, to have the exchanges they desire at the table. They and their guests will be offered the opportunity to set the lighting most conducive for the conversation they intend to have.

Janine Antoni & Stephen Petronio: Entangle is organized by Dayton Director Ian Berry, in collaboration with the artists, and is supported by the Friends of the Tang.

Janine Antoni and Stephen Petronio are Skidmore College’s 2016-17 Don and Judy McCormack Endowed Visiting Artist-Scholars in Residence, which is administered by the Office of the Dean of Special Programs.

The Stephen Petronio Company will be in residence in June 2017, offering a workshop to pre-professional and professional dancers as part of Skidmore College’s annual Summer Dance Workshop.