*Please request a ticket to this event at Visitor Services when purchasing or picking up your admission ticket for REPLICA. Seating is limited and tickets will be given away on a first-come, first-served basis.

Choreographers Jonah Bokaer and Judith Sanchez Ruiz, and visual artist Daniel Arsham will join Suzanne Anker and Michael Maizels for a discussion about art and illusion, mirror neurons, and the intersection of visual art with the metaphors of the neurosciences. Suzanne Anker is a visual artist, theorist, and writer and is Chair of the BFA Fine Arts Department at the School of Visual Arts. With a background in studio arts and philosophy, Michael Maizels is currently working towards his PhD at the University of Virginia with a dissertation that will focus on the intersecting histories of contemporary art and neuroscience.

REPLICA is a dance performance examining memory loss, pattern recognition, and perceptual faculties as they apply to the human body. Choreographers Johah Bokaer and Judith Sanchez Ruiz, in collaboration with visual artist Daniel Arsham, create 3-D illusions in this multimedia presentation. The work constructs situations on stage that have no verifiable counterpart in actual physical space. Accomplished through video and stage design, movements are transported to locations that appear to be just outside the sightline of the audience.

Banner photo: Michael Hart