We Could Break Performance with Vanessa Godden and James Knott

We Could Break Performance is a podcast hosted by artists Vanessa Godden and James Knott investigating the question: “How do we evaluate the substance of tropes enacted in performance art?”

Epi 1: F-F Granados
EpI 2: Archer Pechawis
Epi 3: Erika DeFreitas
Epi 4: Mikiki
Epi 5: Kiera Boult
Epi 6: James Knott, Vanessa Godden, Jordan Beley, Shalon Webber-Heffernan

A Score of Scores

In this series, 10 artists perform the interpretation of a performance score, written for them by an artist of their own choosing.

10 artists. 10 score writers.
A score is an old term for 20.
A score of scores.

Transmitting Trio A (1966) with Sara Wookey

Led by Sara Wookey, a group of dance and performance artists learn Yvonne Rainer’s seminal work, Trio A (1966). The starting point for this project is the shared conversation between dance and performance artists around the distinctions between repertoire and reenactment, in particular consideration of how these modes of archiving in live art relate to the increasing interest in presenting performance art and choreography in the museum.

Silent Dinner

In Silent Dinner, a group of 13 people set up a rudimentary kitchen and then prep, cook and eat a dinner in shared silence, without communicating in their language of origin, in front of the attending audience. The performers are a mix of Deaf, hearing and one CoDA.

Emerging Artists Series LAB

Questions are asked, methods chosen, and outcomes are not guaranteed. Results vary—from podcasts to public performance experiments, and everything in between.

The 2025 Emerging Artists Series LABists are: Christina Anna Trutiak, James Knott and Vanessa Godden.