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Stephen Petronio & Janine Antoni | Entangle: Honey Baby | May 13 – July 16
May 13, 2017
On May 13, the third and final installment of Stephen Petronio and Janine Antoni’s collaboration at the Tang Teaching Museum opens: Honey Baby. This immersive video installation will be open through July 16.
Honey Baby is an immersive experience created by Antoni and Petronio. The spectator reclines on the horizontal plane to view the video above, confounding our notion of the body’s relation to gravity. The video, inspired by motion in utero, captures a folding and tumbling male body suspended in a honey-filled environment. Viscous liquid dripping down a body in developmental transformation reveals a uniquely sensual relationship between subject and host. The fourteen-minute video brings you incrementally closer, until a collapse of space presses the viewer up against the body.
Like Lazarus Did (2013) was the first collaboration between Antoni and Petronio. The final dance of this work, Trevor, was drawn from sonograms of a child developing in utero. This stage work, which was performed by Nick Sciscione, a member of Petronio’s dance company, was the starting point for Honey Baby. Sciscione will appear at the Tang periodically over the course of the exhibition to perform Trevor live in the space.
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.