Cake Walk (1983)
26m
Running Time
December 31, 1983Release Date
Cake Walk (1983)
26m
Running Time
December 31, 1983Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Currently Cake Walk is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: Criterion Channel
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Details.
Release DateDecember 31, 1983
StatusReleased
Running Time26m
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