This performance, followed by an artist talk, is part of our annual Performance Art Week (PAW), in its twelfth edition in 2024. For more information on PAW, click here.

There Is Not an Infinite Space between Two Points investigates the universality of feelings of loss and displacement as well as the concept of transgenerational trauma through the lens of the personal and collective; the trauma inherited from both the immediate family and the ancestral one. The music and lyrics of the piece are performed live by Alexis Gideon alongside the video projection. 

Artist bio

Alexis Gideon is an American visual artist, composer and performer, best known for innovative animated live video operas and interdisciplinary work. Gideon, whose career began under the mentorship of musical legend Anthony Braxton, uses music as the foundational element.

As a Jewish descendent of Holocaust survivors, Gideon creates interdisciplinary works that examine alienation, subjugation and the human condition. The New Museum of Contemporary Art paired Gideon with renowned South African artist William Kentridge for a joint program in January 2013.

Gideon has performed and exhibited throughout the world, including at Moderna Museet Stockholm, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Málaga, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Vdrome, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, and Time Zones Festival Italia. 

Gideon’s work is in the collection of the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; the Debra & Dennis Scholl Collection in Miami, FL; The Benter Foundation in Pittsburgh, PA as well as a number of private collections.