https://www.gwendysmith.com/home daily 1.0 2024-10-16 https://www.gwendysmith.com/about daily 0.75 2025-07-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f63ecd61cb1c753f0862cd/03edffb9-46cb-4261-bdc0-904fbffd3edc/Decomposing+Fem+still+no.1.jpg About Photo by Vaughn Cummings https://www.gwendysmith.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-07-20 https://www.gwendysmith.com/donate daily 0.75 2025-05-13 https://www.gwendysmith.com/chicken daily 0.75 2025-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f63ecd61cb1c753f0862cd/c3752b04-971a-4a25-9cdc-060f666213b7/ADC4-scaled.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f63ecd61cb1c753f0862cd/123f6738-6e5f-4ea4-8ff7-7f99f40fadce/ADC5-scaled.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f63ecd61cb1c753f0862cd/587930ac-23fd-4bc4-a3ca-810c69b5ca38/ADC10-scaled.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f63ecd61cb1c753f0862cd/d8cee772-167c-4247-bb86-cf545a9f5031/IMG_1968.jpg Chicken https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f63ecd61cb1c753f0862cd/52b9a002-47c6-4bc9-a1e8-92271cd480a1/01_3ef9d917-e599-4616-a35e-21e981ffb72b.webp Chicken https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f63ecd61cb1c753f0862cd/4c607868-0a46-4516-b482-9a063d968d81/IMG_7011.JPG Chicken https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f63ecd61cb1c753f0862cd/aea9bb37-2d22-41d0-8c3f-adbe6377eb39/alex-da-corte_chicken_karen-kelly-barbara-schroeder_dancing-foxes-press_2022_4.webp Chicken https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f63ecd61cb1c753f0862cd/93d0239f-5497-4a70-a7c1-36c6fc473277/IMG_6999.JPG Chicken On March 5th, 2020, in conjunction with the current exhibition, Invisible City: Philadelphia and the Vernacular Avant-garde, organized by University of the Arts and curated by Sid Sachs with Jennie Hirsh, Alex Da Corte and Kate Watson-Wallace will reinvent Kaprow’s Chicken in the same location it was originally performed, now known as Gershman Hall of the University of the Arts. Chicken variously dramatizes, commodifies, and deconstructs the trope of the chicken. In 1962, the work was staged on ad-hoc wooden stands and booths with “pitchmen” plucking real chicken feathers, live chickens being vacuumed, people behaving like chickens, records with chicken sounds, and so on. In 2020, Chicken no longer promises the “new vocabulary” it once did. Rather, Da Corte will stage a progressive, animal-friendly reconsideration of what the “avant-carnival” originally considered itself to be. Chicken will feature Kristel Baldoz, Melanie Cotton, Danielle Currica, Julia Eichten, Jessica Emmanuel, Ya-Ya Fairley, Ann-Marie Gover, Imma, Andrew Smith, Kim Thompson, and Wilmer Wilson along with Kate Watson-Wallace and Alex Da Corte; with music composed by Marco Buccelli and Xenia Rubinos, performed with Sunny Ali and Karna Ray. Chicken features a newly commissioned text by Rosalyn Drexler. Chicken will be re-invented at 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 5th, 2020. Elaine C. Levitt Auditorium Gershman Hall University of the Arts 401 So. Broad Street Philadelphia, PA 19147 uarts.edu/invisible Support for the research, development, and presentation of Invisible City has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Additional support has been provided by: University of the Arts, Philadelphia Avant-Garde Studies Consortium (PASC), the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, Allan Kaprow Estate, Italo Scanga Foundation, The Clinton Hill / Allen Tran Foundation, Robert Aibel and Moderne Gallery, The Michener Museum, Edna W. Andrade Foundation, The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, Smithsonian Archives of American Art, The Getty Center, Willoughby Sharp Archive, Institute for Contemporary Art, Kislak Center, Hannah Wilke Collection & Archive, Los Angeles, Temple University Libraries Special Collections Research Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f63ecd61cb1c753f0862cd/9b930908-f033-4a54-ac53-7986f2acfe95/alex-da-corte_chicken_karen-kelly-barbara-schroeder_dancing-foxes-press_2022_5.webp Chicken https://www.gwendysmith.com/roygbiv daily 0.75 2025-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f63ecd61cb1c753f0862cd/fd69e0c8-1ff6-4b35-88d1-64648cbcf30a/installation_view__alex_da_corte__roy_g_biv__luma_westbau__germany__8_october_2022_-_15_january_2023_15.webp ROY G BIV https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f63ecd61cb1c753f0862cd/fa8b5063-a794-46df-a197-70fa7ee2c498/large_WMAA_2022_BIENNIAL_064A_crop_web.jpg ROY G BIV https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f63ecd61cb1c753f0862cd/120cdba5-a001-460c-a8b7-56d397fab0b2/adc-web3-600x.jpg ROY G BIV https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f63ecd61cb1c753f0862cd/52b93058-d7c4-4d7f-baf0-396bd58ce9f4/DSC00998.jpg ROY G BIV https://www.gwendysmith.com/decomposingfem daily 0.75 2025-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f63ecd61cb1c753f0862cd/25af0664-e039-406b-b6e9-e4975f1576cd/Decomposing+Fem+Selects-8.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f63ecd61cb1c753f0862cd/64096f09-2ff1-47f0-888b-ad7b177825e0/Decomposing+Fem+still+no.1.jpg Decomposing Fem https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f63ecd61cb1c753f0862cd/2a86fb00-e0c3-4afa-8520-6e5dc444ed63/Decomposing+Fem+still+no.2.jpg Decomposing Fem https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f63ecd61cb1c753f0862cd/8c34759d-417f-4dd3-831b-46932ccf790c/YkWZjErA.jpeg Decomposing Fem https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f63ecd61cb1c753f0862cd/b5da4e39-9f39-4670-8f1a-af1da4b94dfb/Decomposing+Fem+Selects-17.jpg Decomposing Fem