I’ve Been Waiting For This

Commissioned by Works & Process at the Guggenheim.

Co-presented by Allies in Arts, Dyamant Pictures, Jerome Robbins Dance Division at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, The Kennedy Center, and New York City Center.

Artist Statement by Joseph Gordon and Adrian Danchig-Waring:

I’ve Been Waiting For This is a reflection of our time spent in isolation during the beginning stages of the coronavirus pandemic. An experience at once strange and profoundly universal, this disruption created a necessary space for contemplation about the systems, institutions, politics and artforms we have lived within. Feeling overwhelmed, we increasingly turned to the natural world for solace. Every time we walked in the forest we came out feeling different; somehow more at ease with life's uncertainty. While observing nature's indifference to human suffering- the seasons still change and life cycles recur- we began to let go of the past. This project is both a document of our experience and a meditation on the relationship between man and nature, the constraints of life in isolation, and the intrinsic desire to connect.