Four on the Floor

Zach Hill works across drawing, sculpture, and video to play with material identity, visual perception, and speculative utility. For Four on the Floor, Hill presents a hovering, obelisk-like multimedia triptych that combines gestural and intuitive abstractions from his drawing practice with his explorations in nightlife visuals. Tar paper previously used as a projection mapping surface is stapled chaotically to boards then worked over with charcoal, pastel, ink, and encaustic. This piece is further activated with stage lights and projection. Shown alongside this new work on a small monitor housed in a custom steel frame are video sequences Oculus, Atmospheric Windshield, and Blossom that the artist created for underground queer nightlife events in Philadelphia over the last year.

Kim Miller combines performance and video to explore the dancefloor as a site of learning and social possibility. Inspired by the writing of theorist Sylvia Wynter, Miller investigates social choreography, the ways bodies organize and move together in shared space. In her work, social choreography functions as a set of relations that shapes social dance and examines how people gather and relate to one another, allowing the dance floor to become a site where collective life and liberation can be rehearsed. Her installation centers on a 3 × 5-ft illuminated sculpture of a dance floor paired with a monitor screening L.E.G.S. Light Emitting Glow System. Accompanying the video is a 24 piece grid of diagrammatic drawings and choreographic scores that map gestures, timing, and relational movements.