PRELUDE 2026: Working the Elements: Site-Responsive Performance

Please note that this event is first come, first served.

A conversation on site-responsive performance.

We will be joined by

MORGAN GRIFFIN

Morgan Griffin is a New York based dancer, choreographer, producer, curator and teacher. She holds both an MFA in Dance & an MA in Dance Education from NYU, and has recently performed works by Merce Cunningham, Daniel Nagrin, Madeline Hollander, Maya Lee Parritz, and Robert Whitman, as well as performed her own work at The Jewish Museum, La MaMa Experimental Theater, Paul Taylor Dance Studios, and the Wythe Hotel. She has recently curated and produced performances at Judson Church, WSA, Russian Samovar, Anthology Film Archives and Jean's on Lafayette. She has done movement direction for Nike, Noah NYC, Paco Rabanne, and Rosie Assoulin. She is the co-producer of Beach Sessions Dance Series, a producer for Something Special Studios, and company manager for Faye Driscoll's Weathering.

ACOMPI (Constanza Valenzuela & Jack Radley)

Founded by Constanza Valenzuela and Jack Radley in 2020, ACOMPI is a curatorial project based in New York City. Their collaborative, research-driven projects champion site-responsive and interactive works that reflect the inquiries of their artist peers and broader cultural narratives. In recent years, ACOMPI has presented performance at Freshkills Park, the Staten Island Ferry, the Roosevelt Island Tramway, and a Bed-Stuy Supper Club with artists such as Camilla Carper, Pat Oleszko, Georgica Pettus, Peter BD, Amando Houser, and Alex Tatarsky, among others. ACOMPI's projects have been featured in publications including The New York Times, New York Magazine, Harper's Bazaar, Artforum, Hyperallergic, and artnet. By day, Valenzuela is Associate Curator at Powerhouse Arts, and Radley is Assistant Director of Communications & Audience Strategy at MoMA PS1. For more info please visit www.acompi.nyc or @acompi.nyc

CHRISTINA YANG

Christina Yang is Executive Director of the Association of Art Museum Curators Foundation as well as an independent curator/writer based in New York and Williamstown. Her practice ranges across experimental genres, performance, and social practice with a focus on spectatorship, politics of the image, archives, and feminist care. She has filled curatorial roles at Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive, Williams College Museum of Art, The Kitchen, Guggenheim New York, and Queens Museum. She contributes frequently to the New Social Environment online program of The Brooklyn Rail. She has served as the performance reviews editor of Women + Performance, a journal of feminist theory (2018-20), as well as on their editorial board (2015-20). In 2025, she was awarded her Ph.D. in Performance Studies from NYU with a dissertation titled Bodies In The Dark: Dance and Camera-Performance in The Kitchen Archive, 1974-84. She participated in the Asia Art Archive Leadership Camp (2025-26) led by Daniel Chen and Simon Wu on the topic of “Vaguely Asian.” She is on the faculty of SVA's MA in Curatorial Practice program.