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More than 60 works across media, including major ensemble performances, emerging in the afterlife of postmodern dance Philadelphia–based artist, dancer and choreographer Ralph Lemon (born 1952) is one of the most significant figures to arise from New York’s downtown scene in the 1990s. This catalog, published on the occasion of the first US museum exhibition of Lemon’s work in movement, film and installation, traces the arc of his ongoing collaborations, which extend far beyond the paradigm of dance. Texts by exhibition curators Connie Butler and Thomas Lax are accompanied by essays and contributions by Kevin Beasley, Adrienne Edwards, Darrell Jones, Ralph Lemon, Okwui Okpokwasili, Kevin Quashie and Kari Rittenbach. Featuring a dust jacket that unfolds into a poster, the book includes full-color illustrations of Lemon’s artworks and reproductions of his sketches and notations.

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Bringing into focus works that resist broad classification, 'Ceremonies Out of the Air' illustrates Lemon’s characteristic style of deflection, or what he calls fugitivity.' His anarchic, movement-based works obliterate formalist conventions, skewer straightforward tellings of history, and consider how time and place materialize in muscle memory. * Mousse Magazine * Much like Lemon himself, the exhibition defies categorization, blending and blurring his roles as an artist, choreographer, and writer. The result is a body of work that is at once confounding and poetic, absurd yet deeply relatable, offering a fragmented yet illuminating glimpse into the intricate workings of the artist’s mind. -- Rebecca Schiffman * Hyperallergic * Working in the contexts of dance, drawing, painting, installation, and writing, New York–based Ralph Lemon has expanded what art can be through a generative practice that questions the conventions of his different disciplines and his body’s relationship to each. -- Maximiliano Duron * Art in America *

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