Adam Linder: Full Service
Full Service was a survey exhibition of choreographer Adam Linder’s complete Choreographic Services at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. CCA Wattis hired Linder’s five services—Some Cleaning (2013), Some Proximity (2014), Some Riding (2015), Some Strands of Support (2016), and Dare to Keep Kids Off Naturalism (2017)—to be performed across both galleries from open to close during normal gallery hours for the month of September. For each of these services, a contract was signed, enlarged, and placed on view in the gallery. Artist Shahryar Nashat designed the display for the five contracts.
This ambitious, ever-changing, experimental exhibition concerned labor, economies, movement, and bodies in service-oriented work. Within the context of an art space, it highlighted the art world’s reliance on free and underpaid labor as a present and pressing issue. Of course, issues of underpaid service work pervade well beyond the gallery walls in which Linder’s choreographic work poetically and poignantly elevates.
Adam Linder: Full Service (September 8-29, 2018) was curated by Anthony Huberman and organized with Leila Grothe. This exhibition launched the 20th anniversary year for CCA Wattis and traveled to Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean in February 2019.
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Citations and links:
Malick, Courtney. “Full Service by Adam Linder Wattis Institute / San Francisco.” flash—art.com, October 26, 2018.
Wilson, Emily. “A Choreographer Bills His Dances as ‘Services.’” hyperallergic.com, January 23, 2019.
Tacata, Ryan D. “In Repose, We Can Hold the Room: Adam Linder with Ryan D. Tacata.” performa-arts.org, November 2018.
Bauer, Claudia. “Adam Linder Presents Choreographic ‘Services’ in San Francisco.” datebook.sfchronicle.com, Datebook | San Francisco Arts & Entertainment Guide, September 14, 2018.
Hotchkiss, Sarah. “Break Up Bay Area Monotony With a Bevy of Visual Art This Fall.” kqed.org, August 28, 2018.