Grateful to have worked with @benegould on the exhibition photography for his upcoming performance Ardor, starting at 2 pm, Friday, 02/05 with @centerforcraft and @liberalartsroxbury. . The event will close with a 30-minute discussion between the fellows Lauren Kalman, Matt lambert, and artist Ben Gould. . Center for Craft celebrates the opening of Desire Paths, curated by 2020 Curatorial Fellows, Lauren Kalman and Matt lambert, with a live performance by exhibiting artist, Ben Gould, entitled Ardor in collaboration with Liberal Arts Roxbury (Roxbury, NY). . Ardor is a new performance by Ben Gould developed for a virtual audience, filmed by Joseph Bacon and streamed live. Contending with transformation, power, and desire, it activates a set of internal and external manifestations of the body’s energy systems. These primary sources - chemical, electric, thermal, and mechanical energy - are employed both within the body involuntarily, and outwardly through analogous, intentional movement-based choreographies that utilize Gould’s Tourette Syndrome as a generator. Throughout the performance these physical embodiments, internalized and made visible through movement, have external counterpoints: objects and processes that expand the scale of these energy systems into new realms. An ice-cast stone is used to reroute the directionality of impulse, electrodes flow a subtle current through the body, charging the system and splitting roles of control - instigating a new and more deeply buried movement language to be reckoned with. All this gives way to a work both raw, intimate, and severe. . . . @benegould @centerforcraft @liberalartsroxbury @matt_lambert_studio @laurenkalman @a_little_presence @chriswhitephoto