I am an artist, performer, editor and curator in Brooklyn, New York. From 2007-2010, I worked on a series of community-based performance projects in Bushwick/Ridgewood. work for pay (2009) explored the relationship between artistic practice and labor. I hired three unemployed artists to be dancers in a performance piece, paying them minimum wage for rehearsal and performance time. The piece itself used the artists’ marketable skills as source material and we performed it in different venues around New York until all of the artists found employment. show & tell (2008-2009) was a monthly salon in my apartment featuring performances and exhibitions by local artists.
My current research interest is in curatorial interventions in dance and performance that create an engaged critical dialogue. I am a Curatorial Fellow with the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance (ICPP)/Danspace Project. I am also a Development Associate at Danspace Project, Coordinator for the Eiko & Koma Retrospective Project and Guest Editor of Critical Correspondence, a project of Movement Research.
You can contact me at lydiambell (at) gmail (dot) com
