In addition to the exhibition of photographs, The 8th Floor will present a handful of socially - engaged
dinners over the course of the show, and will release a book, scheduled for publication in 2018, comprised of transcriptions from various dinner conversations over the years.
The video
shows the unscripted conversation that took place
over the
course of their
dinner, paired with footage
of Rainer leading Pendleton in partnered movement exercises, Rainer reading from a script which draws from her writing and that
of Stokely Carmichael, Malcolm X, and Keeanga - Yamahtta Taylor, and
of Rainer's 1978 documentation
of Trio A, to «stage an inter-generational dialogue across lines
of sexual and racial difference that provoke critical inquiry into the artists» shared questions
of poetics and politics.»