My Summit Is Out of Reach (Winter) | May 22, 2025 7-8:30 PM

Scans of silver gelatin prints from My Summit Is Out of Reach, overlaying the "skin" from Part 3: Suspend.

 

My Summit Is Out of Reach (Winter)


Thursday, 7:00-8:30pm
May 22, 2025
at Bungee Space

RSVP is mandatory
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Celebrating the conclusion of the first half of My Summit Is Out of Reach, a monumental “performance arranged for print” by Matty Davis in collaboration with Matt Wolff, Bungee Space is pleased to present a studio visit-style event featuring a small exhibition, readings, and a conversation between artist Matty Davis and award-winning writer Chloé Cooper Jones.

This rare event also presents a unique opportunity to consider joining My Summit Is Out of Reach as an audience member. Beginning in the summer of 2025, the work will be “performed” for just the second time.

PS If you can't make it on May 22, but would like to discuss becoming an audience member for My Summit..., please respond to Matty (d.matty.william@gmail.com) .

You can learn more about the evening - as well as the work itself - and RSVP here.

(Space is limited, so please RSVP if you'd like to attend!)

My Summit Is Out of Reach - the third work in a series of performances arranged for print, an utterly original, new form that synthesizes choreography, writing, photography, and design. My Summit Is Out of Reach exists as an ongoing 13-part work that is mailed to its audience via USPS over an indeterminate amount of time, according to the work’s real-time production. Begun in May 2023, this slow unfolding that charts Matty Davis searching numerous mountain ranges in the United States for “the surface and the slope,” a particular site upon which to actualize a choreographic act. The pursuit of the dance itself thrusts the performer into relation with other species, ecosystems, histories, and senses of time and scale that induce reckonings with our own bodies and our place in the world.
About the artist

Matty Davis is an artist and choreographer engaged in collaborative, embodied explorations of the tension between our fragility and our fortitude. His work frequently uses choreography as an instrument to cultivate high-stakes relationships—ranging from the interpersonal to the cosmic—that push himself and others to creatively face and negotiate forces that drive some of the most important parts of our lives: trust, risk, love, empathy, commitment, and responsibility. Marked by full-throttle physicality and inventive movement vocabularies, his performances have been described as “balancing ecstatically on the edge of life and death” (Jesse Zaritt).

Over the last decade, Davis’s work has been presented by various institutions in the US and abroad, in addition to many intentional site-specific locations, from mountains to hurricane-churned shorelines, living rooms to the gritty concrete of New York City. Institutionally, Davis’s work has been presented by the the High Line, Frieze New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Momentary, the ICA Miller at Carnegie Mellon University, the Fine Arts Center at the University of Arkansas, Kanal Centre Pompidou, Bozar, the Palais de Tokyo, the Max Ernst Museum, Pioneer Works, Steppenwolf Theater, et al. He is the author of numerous books, and since 2021 has been trailblazing a new form, “performance arranged for print,” with long-standing collaborator Matt Wolff. As part of his collaborative practice, he has worked with many different kinds of people across the vocational spectrum: surgeons, carpenters, aviators, athletes, and environmentalists. He is currently working on a new performance-based exhibition about fatherhood.
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