Forgetful Snow, The Landscape, 2014, The Kitchen, New York 
photographs: © Paula Court
Forgetful Snow, 2014, The Box, Los Angeles
photographs: Naotaka Hiro

Forgetful Snow

A triptych composed of two durational performances and an evening-length dance, Forgetful Snow investigates the transcendent possibilities of body and mind. By day, performers in the installations The Landscape and Memory (of Snow) Machine labor at searching for landscapes, retrieving lost moments of time and archiving the accumulating results. These simple tasks involving the body, video, and language are quietly focused and mysterious. In the evening, the dance is performed without clothing and accompaniment to strip it of layered-on meaning and emotion. Presented instead is an intimate and formally complex choreography with elusive performative demands and textures.

Choreography and concept: Melinda Ring, in collaboration with Talya Epstein, Maggie Jones and Molly Lieber

The Kitchen, May 8–17, 2014
Curator: Matthew Lyons

The dance
Performers: Lorene Bouboushian, Talya Epstein, Maggie Jones, Molly Lieber

The Landscape and Memory (of Snow) Machine
Performers: Lorene Bouboushian, Talya Epstein, Luke George, Federico Hewson, K.J. Holmes, Maggie Jones, Macklin Kowal, Molly Lieber

The Box, July 11–20, 2014
Curator, Mara McCarthy

The dance
Performers: Lorene Bouboushian, Talya Epstein, Maggie Jones, Molly Lieber

The Landscape and Memory (of Snow) Machine
Lorene Bouboushian, Dorothy Dubrule, Talya Epstein, Maggie Jones, Jmy James Kidd, Molly Lieber, Jos McKain, Betty Nguyen, Melinda Ring, Allison Wyper

Lighting Design: Paul Clay
Video Consultant: Howard Silver
Audio Consultant: Paul Chavez

Chapbook - Contact Quarterly
excerpt - White On White, Melinda Buckwalter
Review - New York Times
Preview - Bomb Magazine
Preview - Art in America
Video - Rehearsal Clip

Forgetful Snow Reading (viewing) List:
Oscar Niemeyer: Architecte de Brasilia
Notes on the Cinematographer, Robert Bresson
The Poetics of Space
, Gaston Bachelard
Marcel Duchamp, Anne D’harnoncourt, Kynaston McShine
Moominland Midwinter, Tove Jansson
Snow, Orhan Pamuk

Funding Credits
© Melinda Ring 2022