Presented as part of “AUNTSforcamera” and R&D Season: CHOREOGRAPHY.

An important interactive component of the installation of “AUNTSforcamera” at the New Museum includes a series of nine artist-devised tours, which have been organized using AUNTS’ chain-curation model. Nine artists have been invited by “AUNTSforcamera” artists to create a response to the exhibition in the form of a tour, which will be performed exclusively for and with participating audiences. Jen Rosenblit was invited by Vanessa Justice.

Justice’s Dancing the Edits explores video post-production as a particular mode of choreographic research. Justice states: “I’m investigating how the editing process itself can be more embodied. It’s almost like a dance between the footage and myself.” Rosenblit responds to this work with a tour that invites participants to “embody an edit” of the exhibition “AUNTSforcamera.” Participants will turn their observations of the work in the show into a series of “cuts” that will comprise a collectively generated score for an improvised dance performed by Rosenblit in the New Museum Sky Room. These collective “cuts” will also provide inspiration for new content to become part of the exhibition, performed for camera in the New Museum Theater by tour participants.

In keeping with the spirit of AUNTS, the currency of exchange for attending these tours is not monetary; instead visitors must provide proof of submission to #auntsforcamera, an interactive work by Karl Scholz included in the “AUNTSforcamera” exhibition. #auntsforcamera utilizes the downloadable app OchoVideo to record eight-second user-generated video clips to become part of a sequenced single-channel video installation (on view in the New Museum lobby) that accumulates over the course of the entire project from September 8, 2014, to February 15, 2015.