Sylvia Palacios Whitman: To Draw a Line with the Body Pocket Book

Sylvia Palacios Whitman: To Draw a Line with the Body Pocket Book 

The exhibition co-curated by Aimé Iglesias Lukin and Rachel Remick 

Visual Arts exhibition series editors: Aimé Iglesias Lukin and Karen Marta 

Associate editor: Tie Jojima 

This fully illustrated publication accompanies Americas Society exhibition Sylvia Palacios Whitman: To Draw a Line with the Body. 

Sylvia Palacios Whitman: To Draw a Line with the Body is the first solo exhibition and career survey of the Chilean artist in New York. Sylvia Palacios Whitman (b. Osorno, Chile, 1941) is a visual and performance artist, who has been experimenting with movement and contemporary dance since her moving to New York in the early 1960s. She became an integral figure of the experimental downtown arts scene in 1970s New York, having collaborated with many American and international artists. In her solo and group performances, Palacios Whitman developed her own choreographic language, which privileged the participation of untrained performers, embraced humor and unexpected elements, and incorporated found objects and ephemeral props.

Sylvia Palacios Whitman: To Draw a Line with the Body will revisit these landmark performances with never-before-seen material from the artist’s archives alongside sketches, video and photographic documentation, and new large scale works on paper. Central to the presentation will be the restaging of Palacios Whitman’s key historical works. 

Read the full pocket book. 

Table of contents 

• Foreword by Susan Segal 
• Sylvia Palacios Whitman’s Stories by Aimé Iglesias Lukin 
• Visual Performance in the Work of Sylvia Palacios Whitman by Jennifer McColl Crozier 
• To Draw a Line with the Body by Rachel Remick 
• Works 
• Exhibition History 
• Author Biographies 
• Credits 
• Acknowledgments 

See all Americas Society publications. 

You can purchase the catalogue here.