study now steady

PRODUCTION

MSP designed and installed the video projection and audio systems for Ligia Lewis’s exhibition at CARA, presenting her work A Plot A Scandal alongside a live, durational performance commission.

THE EXHIBITION

In study now steady, time loops and bends. Dance, in Lewis’s work, is an encounter that disrupts linear time, asking performers and spectators to attend to the body as both a troubled archive and a polyphonic chorus.

The exhibition presented A Plot A Scandal, which conjures specters of history and embodied memory, including Enlightenment thinker and slave trade beneficiary John Locke, Cuban artist and revolutionary José Aponte, and Lewis’s great-grandmother Lolón Zapata. Its live commission, a directed rehearsal made durational, exposed the practices behind stage and film works such as minor matter (2016), Water Will (in Melody) (2018), deader than dead (2020), and Still Not Still (2021).

CREDITS

Curator: Manuela Moscoso, Executive Director and Chief Curator
Production & Exhibition Design: Agustin Schang
Curatorial Assistance: Marian Chudnovsky
Construction: Rachel Cha-os
Painting: Steven Doyle
Graphic Production: Full Point Graphics
Graphic Design: The Rodina
Photography: Helena Goñi & Liz Ligon