Camilo Godoy: renacemos a cada instante

The New Museum today announced that 2023–24 Artist-in-Residence Camilo Godoy will convene participatory workshops, an open rehearsal and dialogue, and NewMu Teens programs throughout February 2024, culminating in the premiere of a new work, "Camilo Godoy: renacemos a cada instante," on February 24, 2024. Using the New Museum’s Theater as a space for rehearsal, dialogue, and collaboration, Godoy invites the public to join his evolving process, leading to two final performances exploring movement, breathing, and mourning practices. The title of his residency is borrowed from an embroidered work made by the queer Paraguayan artist Feliciano Centurión in 1995, the year before he died of AIDS-related complications. Godoy adjusts Centurión’s title Renazco a cada instante (I am reborn at every moment) to “renacemos a cada instante” (we are reborn at every moment) to emphasize collective celebrations of life and death.

This evolving body of work draws on Godoy’s Choreographic Studies, a personal archive and a constellation of collaged images that represent the human body performing gestures of eroticism, ecstasy, grief, and pain. He intersperses these images with photographs of himself and other dancers rehearsing and arranges them in sequences of evocative poses that he treats as dance notations. Through his collaborative and improvisatory choreographic process, Godoy’s residency work will draw from this archive to develop a new performance based on mourning practices and the resilience found in pleasure.  

The New Museum’s annual Artist Residency program supports artists working across education and performance to create new, participatory projects with the New Museum’s diverse audiences. Across workshops, conversations, and performances, New Museum Artists-in-Residence have interacted with different communities through transdisciplinary methods including dance, storytelling, medicinal dialogue, animation, lectures, musical performances, and installations. Past participants of the program include Jeffrey Gibson, Paul Ramirez Jonas, Simone Leigh, Shaun Leonardo, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Sable Elyse Smith, Chris E. Vargas, and Ilya Vidrin, among many others.

“Camilo Godoy: renacemos a cada instante,” the New Museum’s 2023-2024 Artist-in-Residence program, is organized by Alethea Rockwell, Keith Haring Director of Education and Public Engagement, Gi (Ginny) Huo, Assistant Director of Education, and Austin D Bowes, Public Programs Coordinator. Performance production is by Derek Wright, Senior Production Manager. With project support from Laura Hakel, ISLAA Curatorial Fellow.  

Camilo Godoy (b. Bogotá, Colombia) is a New York-based artist whose practice spans photography, performance, pedagogy, and archival production. Godoy has participated in residencies at Movement Research, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), coleção moraes-barbosa, Recess, and SOLARIS; and has been exhibited in New York at Brooklyn Museum, Leslie-Lohman Museum, OCDChinatown, PROXYCO Gallery; and Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá; Moody Center, Houston; UNSW Galleries, Sydney; Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Quito; among others. He has performed at Danspace Project, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Center for Performance Research, Toronto Biennial, and Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt.

Upcoming programs
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Image to Dance: Workshop with Camilo Godoy
Saturday, February 3, 3pm

Join Camilo Godoy for a workshop that will use still images to inspire dance. Using improvisation and movement strategies, Godoy will lead participants in the development of new choreographic material inspired by images in his personal archive. No prior dance experience is necessary and people of all physical abilities are encouraged to participate.

Sound to Dance: Workshop with Camilo Godoy
Thursday, February 8, 6pm

In his second residency workshop, Godoy will lead participants in the development of new choreographic material inspired by sounds produced by their own bodies and by the natural world around them, including the waterways around the island of Manhattan. As with the earlier image inspired movement workshop, this session will inform Godoy’s final performance piece. No prior dance experience is necessary and people of all physical abilities are encouraged to participate.

Open rehearsal and dialogue with Camilo Godoy, Siobhan Burke, and Luis Rincon Alba
Thursday, February 22, 6:30pm

Experience a work-in-progress performance by Camilo Godoy during this evening of rehearsal and dialogue. Godoy and collaborating dancers will present short sections of their new work, “renacemos a cada instante,” interspersed with responses and discussion from scholar Luis Rincón Alba and dance writer Siobhan Burke, as well as questions from and interaction with the audience.

Performance: renacemos a cada instante by Camilo Godoy 
Saturday, February 24, 3pm
Thursday, February 29, 6:30pm

Camilo Godoy presents a new performance work, renacemos a cada instante, exploring mourning practices and the resilience found in bodily joy and pleasure. This performance is the culmination of Godoy’s residency at the New Museum during which he used the Museum’s theater as a space for rehearsal, dialogue, and collaboration.