JACKERS | Dana Michel and Michael Nardone
February 13, 2024
Dana Michel, cover of “Jackers,” 2023
YELLOW TOWEL: A SCORE – Paper Towel Edit v.1, aka “Jackers,” composed for Uline Paper Towels, two-ply, 11 in. x 9 in., 85 sheets per roll, edition of 33. Handwritten in June 2023 for the Festival TransAmérique's tenth anniversary celebration of Dana Michel’s iterative solo performance YELLOW TOWEL, winner of the Venice Biennale’s Silver Lion for innovation in dance in 2017.
Initiated in 2018, with the support of curator Pip Day, YELLOW TOWEL: A SCORE is an ongoing collaboration between Dana Michel and Michael Nardone. Together, the two excavate the performance’s range of subjectivities and embodiments, its utterances and materialities, while seeking to articulate the work’s compositional poetics in the form of a book.
A second edition of the book will be presented at the Sâlmon Festival d’arts vives de Barcelona in February 2024.
Video: Director and Cinematographer Tracy Maurice, Editor Armen Harootun
Dana Michel is a live artist. Her works interact with the expanded fields of improvisation, choreography, sculpture, comedy, hip-hop, cinematography, techno, poetry, psychology, dub and social commentary to create a centrifuge of experience. In 2017, Michel was awarded the Silver Lion for Innovation in Dance at the Venice Biennale. In 2018, she became the first ever dance artist in residence at the National Arts Centre, Canada. In 2019, she was awarded the ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art (Kuopio, Finland). In 2022, the Canada Council for the Arts awarded her the Jacqueline Lemieux Prize in recognition of her contribution to dance in Canada. Based in Montréal, Michel is currently touring four solo performance works: YELLOW TOWEL, MERCURIAL GEORGE, CUTLASS SPRING and MIKE.
Michael Nardone is a poet and editor based in Montréal. His works include Aural Poetics (2023), the Documents on Expanded Poetics books series (2018– ), the critical journal Amodern (2013– ), The Ritualites (2018), Sonic Materialities (2016), and Transaction Record (2014). An active collaborator across artistic practices to produce experimental editions, Nardone’s recent and ongoing collaborations occur with Dana Michel, Dylan Robinson, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Ryan Clarke, and Tanya Lukin Linklater. His forthcoming works include a monograph on contemporary poetics, a book of dialogues, and a translation of Abigail Lang’s La conversation transatlantique.
