Visiting Faculty Lecture:
Miguel Gutiérrez
Type
Lecture
Series
Barbara Lee Lecture Series
Location
Old Dominion Fresco Barn
Skowhegan Campus
39 Art School Rd
Madison, ME 04950
Date
7:30 PM
Related from The Library
Miguel Gutierrez is the next speaker in our 2025 Barbara Lee Lecture Series. In his talk, “Choreography for the end of the world,” Miguel discusses the development of his choreographic work and the tension between visual representation and affect. He focuses on how he approaches archives, reconstruction, intentional corruption, multi-directionality and melodrama in his work, especially in his recent performance Super Nothing.
Miguel’s work creates empathetic, irreverent, and reflective spaces that prioritize attention to unraveling normative belief systems. His influences include queer club performance, dance spectacles, gay melancholy, somatic practices, resistance movements, phenomenology, and artists he admires.
About the artist:
Miguel Gutierrez is an artist and professor living between New York and Los Angeles. Recent performance work includes Super Nothing, a dance blueprint for queer survival, and a music project called sueño. His work has been presented internationally for over twenty years in venues such as Festival D’Automne in Paris, On the Boards, Wexner Center for the Arts, Walker Center for the Arts, New York Live Arts, and Festival Universitario in Colombia. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, a United States Artists Fellow, and a recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Art award, a 2016 Doris Duke Artist Award, a 2016 Frankie Award, and four New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Awards. He is an Associate Professor of Choreography and Vice Chair of the MFA program in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at UCLA.
About the Barbara Lee Lecture Series:
The Barbara Lee Lecture Series is an annual series that features faculty artists during our summer program. During this series, we open our campus to the public, welcoming our friends and neighbors into the conversations that take place at the School. After the summer program, the lectures become part of the Lecture Archive, a growing collection of recordings that can be accessed online or on request.
