“An exhilaratingly personal culmination of the series.” —Artforum

Thank You For Coming is a series of works created between 2012 and 2020 which summons the unnamed forces that surge between the viewer and the viewed.

Faye Driscoll’s Thank You For Coming: Space is a shared rite of passage—an invocation of the transformative powers of presence, and of absence. Space unfolds within an intimate installation, wired for sound and upheld by pulleys, ropes, and the weight of others, where Driscoll appears alone with the audience. Through an alchemy of body, object, voice and live sound, she builds a moving requiem for the human body and conjures a world that is, like ourselves, alive and forever changeable. Space invites us to collectively confront life’s final flourishing, and tethers us to our potential for both the grotesque and the sublime.

Thank You for Coming: Space premiered at The Alexander Kasser Theater, Montclair State University, New Jersey.

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CREDITS
Creator and Performer: Faye Driscoll
Visual Design: Nick Vaughan & Jake Margolin
Sound Design: Andrew Gilbert & Faye Driscoll
Lighting Design: Amanda K. Ringger
Artistic Advisors: Jesse Zaritt & Sacha Yanow
Rehearsal Assistant: Izzy Miller
Production and Management: George Lugg

PRESENTATIONS
April 16-19, 2020: Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, OH)
March 5-8, 2020: Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN)
January 8-11, 2020: New York Live Arts (New York, NY)
November 21-24, 2019: Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston (Boston, MA)
April 2-14, 2019: World Premiere at Montclair State University (Montclair, NJ)

COMMISSIONING & SUPPORT
Commissioned by Peak Performances as part of the Performing Arts Residency Lab (PeARL) at Montclair State University, New Jersey; and co-commissioned by the Walker Art Center with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the William and Nadine McGuire Commissioning Fund; and Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University through the Wexner Center Residency Award Program. The work was made possible with generous support from the Doris Duke Performing Artist Awards Program and the Jerome Foundation, and developed with residency support from Camargo Foundation, the Pillow Lab at Jacob’s Pillow and the Rauschenberg Foundation.

Thank You for Coming: Space is a project of Creative Capital.