Kim Miller

Social Choreography: Can I Hold Something?

Kim Miller is an artist based in Milwaukee who explores ideas around power, agency, action, and meaning through video, performance, and organizing. Miller borrows and merges methods from performance art, dance, theater, and film to uncover questions around a radical democratic model. Social Choreography is a project by Kim Miller for Actual Fractals, Act I & Act II in which her scores ask you, the viewer, to actively participate in the exhibition. Millers creative prompts may have you consider questions, perspectives, movements, gestures, or memories that expand your awareness of the relationships between body, art, and the environment.

Kim Millers custom Social Choreography scores can be found on the object labels throughout our exhibition and are a reminder that sculpture relies on us, the viewers, to activate, make meaning, and bring the works fully to life.

Kim Miller is an artist based in Milwaukee who explores ideas around power, agency, action, and meaning through video, performance, and organizing. Miller borrows and merges methods from performance art, dance, theater, and film to uncover questions around a radical democratic model. Social Choreography is a project by Kim Miller for Actual Fractals, Act I & Act II in which her scores ask you, the viewer, to actively participate in the exhibition. Millers creative prompts may have you consider questions, perspectives, movements, gestures, or memories that expand your awareness of the relationships between body, art, and the environment.

Kim Millers custom Social Choreography scores can be found on the object labels throughout our exhibition and are a reminder that sculpture relies on us, the viewers, to activate, make meaning, and bring the works fully to life.

Kim Miller is an artist based in Milwaukee who explores ideas around power, agency, action, and meaning through video, performance, and organizing. Miller borrows and merges methods from performance art, dance, theater, and film to uncover questions around a radical democratic model. Social Choreography is a project by Kim Miller for Actual Fractals, Act I & Act II in which her scores ask you, the viewer, to actively participate in the exhibition. Millers creative prompts may have you consider questions, perspectives, movements, gestures, or memories that expand your awareness of the relationships between body, art, and the environment.

Kim Millers custom Social Choreography scores can be found on the object labels throughout our exhibition and are a reminder that sculpture relies on us, the viewers, to activate, make meaning, and bring the works fully to life.

Kim Miller

Kim Miller

Social Choreography: Can I Hold Something?

Exhibition

Exhibition

Materials & Dimensions

Materials & Dimensions

Text, bodies real and imagined

Year

Year

2024

Site

Site

Northwestern Mutual Grounds

Credits

Credits

Courtesy of the artist and Sculpture Milwaukee.

Photography and video by Peter Barrickman and Michael Lagerman.

Audio Tour

Audio Tour

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Social Choreography Score

Social Choreography Score

Social Choreography Score

To stumble, to flail, to hesitate, is not to fall. Make a gesture that stumbles one that reaches for something without arriving.

Social choreography works with and through a body that is not an image the body is not a representation of something else. The body is not a problem. While it holds ideology, it never does so fully, or for long. The flesh of the collective is historically, culturally marked and named. The body-field, collective enfleshment, is a condition for possibility of change. The body is not a thing, but a lived body, the body is a question what do I do? an open possibility.

What do you do?

How can you move right now, right here, towards a change? Make a gesture of change. Scale this gesture until it reaches someone else.

To stumble, to flail, to hesitate, is not to fall. Make a gesture that stumbles one that reaches for something without arriving.

Social choreography works with and through a body that is not an image the body is not a representation of something else. The body is not a problem. While it holds ideology, it never does so fully, or for long. The flesh of the collective is historically, culturally marked and named. The body-field, collective enfleshment, is a condition for possibility of change. The body is not a thing, but a lived body, the body is a question what do I do? an open possibility.

What do you do?

How can you move right now, right here, towards a change? Make a gesture of change. Scale this gesture until it reaches someone else.

To stumble, to flail, to hesitate, is not to fall. Make a gesture that stumbles one that reaches for something without arriving.

Social choreography works with and through a body that is not an image the body is not a representation of something else. The body is not a problem. While it holds ideology, it never does so fully, or for long. The flesh of the collective is historically, culturally marked and named. The body-field, collective enfleshment, is a condition for possibility of change. The body is not a thing, but a lived body, the body is a question what do I do? an open possibility.

What do you do?

How can you move right now, right here, towards a change? Make a gesture of change. Scale this gesture until it reaches someone else.

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thank you

To our generous sponsors, partners, collaborators, and supporters who make our work possible.

Founding & Sustaining
Sponsors

* indicates both Founding and sustaining founding sponsor

Anonymous
Donna & Donald Baumgartner*
Black Box Fund
Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation
Herb Kohl Philanthropies
Herzfeld Foundation
Hoke Family Foundation
Susan & Mark Irgens*
Mandel Groups*
Mellowes Family*
Sue & Bud Selig*
Julie & David Uihlein*
Lacey Sadoff Foundation

presenting

Collaborator

Betty Arndt
City of Milwaukee Arts Board
Good Karma Brands

leader

Anonymous
Heil Family Foundation
Godfrey & Kahn

Exhibition Partner

Visionary

Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation

sculpture

Wayne & Lori Morgan

Connector

BMO
Foley & Lardner
Hawks Landscaping
Open Pantry
PNC Bank
PwC
Russ Darrow Group
Town Bank
US Bank
WeycoGroup

Sculpture Milwaukee is always free and open to the public thanks to our generous supporters.

We work with trusted community partners to ensure great contemporary art is accessible to all.

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