Faye Driscoll: Thank You For Coming: Space

Faye Driscoll’s Thank You For Coming: Space is a shared rite of passage—an invocation of the transformative powers of presence, and of absence. Space unfolds within an intimate installation, wired for sound and upheld by pulleys, ropes, and the weight of others, where Driscoll appears alone with the audience. Through an alchemy of body, object, voice, and live sound, she builds a moving requiem for the human body and conjures a world that is, like ourselves, alive and forever changeable.

Space is the final performance in Faye Driscoll’s celebrated Thank You For Coming series—which includes the earlier works Play and Attendance, performed at the ICA in previous seasons. The trilogy summons the unnamed forces that surge between the viewer and the viewed in order to create a communal realm where our experiences are palpable, heightened and questioned. Space invites us to collectively confront life’s final flourishing, and tethers us to our potential for both the grotesque and the sublime.

Please note: There is no late seating and no intermission. 

ICA admission is included with all ICA performance tickets. Note that timed tickets are required to experience Yayoi Kusama: LOVE IS CALLING. A limited number will be available for performance ticket-holders, first come, first served, in person only.

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About Faye Driscoll

Production Credits

Thank You for Coming: Space was commissioned by Peak Performances as part of the Performing Arts Residency Lab (PeARL) at Montclair State University, New Jersey; and co-commissioned by the Walker Art Center with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the William and Nadine McGuire Commissioning Fund; and Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University through the Wexner Center Residency Award Program.

The work was made possible with generous support from the Doris Duke Performing Artist Awards Program and the Jerome Foundation, and developed with residency support from Camargo Foundation, the Pillow Lab at Jacob’s Pillow and the Rauschenberg Foundation.

Thank You for Coming: Space is a project of Creative Capital.

First Republic Bank is proud to sponsor the 2019–2020 ICA Live Performance Season.

Additional support is generously provided by Edward Berman and Kathleen McDonough and Robert Davoli and Eileen McDonagh.

Access for Boston’s Dance Community is supported by the Pratt-Hall Fund.