IGUANA Collaborative

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DOLL CHAIN

IGUANA Collaborative

DOLL CHAIN

IGUANA Collaborative

Saturday

4–6pm

Sidewalk Runway between Sixth and Seventh Avenues

Sunday

1–3pm

14th Street Park near Eleventh Avenue, moving eastward

This group performative engagement uses the concept of the paper doll chain. IGUANA Collaborative members wear identical robes connected at the sleeves to visually confirm notions of togetherness and interdependentness, echoing historic paper doll chain concepts of friendship and community. Their structured improvisations stem from contemporary urban life and colloquial group dances that emphasize unity rather than rugged individualism and division. DOLL CHAIN investigates freedom of expression in movement, non-conformity to ideal body types and performance art as a form of peaceful protest. Viewers may join.

Project Site

IGUANA Collaborative was founded in 1976 by artists from Detroit: Sherry and John K Erskine and Bonnie Sue Stein. IGUANA creates hybrid [analog/digital] interdisciplinary works utilizing lens-based media, performance, installation and sound. They are denizens of the new & unusual, itching to ‘make-a-mark’ across borders and social definitions.

@sherryerskine.art