Cake Walk (1983)
This video documents Cake Walk, an installation and performance piece by artist Houston Conwill, staged in November 1983 at Linda Goode Bryant's pioneering gallery Just Above Midtown (JAM), at its second (downtown) location on Franklin Street. The piece refers to the cakewalk dance which developed in the mid-eighteenth century among enslaved African Americans as, among other things, a way to covertly ridicule slaveholders. The dancers in Cake Walk move amid Conwill's sculptures and paintings, one of Conwill's cosmograms painted on the floor beneath them.
Director: Ulysses Jenkins
Runtime: 26 min
Release Date: December 31, 1983
Country: United States of America
Language: English
Original Language: en
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Frequently Asked Questions
- What is Cake Walk about?
- This video documents Cake Walk, an installation and performance piece by artist Houston Conwill, staged in November 1983 at Linda Goode Bryant's pioneering gallery Just Above Midtown (JAM), at its second (downtown) location on Franklin Street. The piece refers to the cakewalk dance which developed in the mid-eighteenth century among enslaved African Americans as, among other things, a way to covertly ridicule slaveholders. The dancers in Cake Walk move amid Conwill's sculptures and paintings, one of Conwill's cosmograms painted on the floor beneath them.
- Who directed Cake Walk?
- Cake Walk was directed by Ulysses Jenkins.
- How long is Cake Walk?
- Cake Walk has a runtime of 26m (26 minutes).
- Where was Cake Walk produced?
- Cake Walk was produced in United States of America.