Boundless Minds & Moving Bodies presents an intimate visual journey into the early 1980s art scene in New York through the prism of collaboration between Keith Haring, Muna Tseng and Tseng Kwong Chi.
It reveals three friends in their individual and intersecting orbits, expressing themselves through different disciplinary languages: drawing, dance and photography. Their work and interactions reveal a shared performative energy of the joys of experimenting, openness, exchange and social engagement. Together and independently, all three artist were immersed in and contributors to the bustling and vibrant cultural downtown scene.
The book features Keith Haring's 1982 collaboration with choreographer Muna Tseng to create the set for her performance piece 'Epochal Songs'. Muna’s brother, conceptual photographer Tseng Kwong Chi, was a close friend and collaborator with Haring and his photographs of Haring’s work in the subways, on the streets and during public performances continue to keep them alive to a audiences across the globe today. Next to the work of Keith and Muna, the publication introduces Tseng Kwong Chi’s own body of seminal work: the famous self-portrait series, 'East Meets West'.
