Keith Hennessy Interview: Part 2

This is the second half of my conversation with dancer, choreographer, provocateur Keith Hennessy at the Atlas Cafe on the last day of February, 2019. As we continued to talk, we touched on the notion of happiness, what it means for an artist to be a brand, and again the workshops coming up at SF MOMA, de(composition). Perhaps, most importantly, we started to wrestle with some ideas of what it means to be a political artist and create political work. Hennessy’s answers are clear, complex, tricky, and maybe, as a practical matter impossible to do unless you’re Keith Hennessy—maybe.