Bokaer and Arsham's 'Occupant' at Atlas brings dance and visual art together
It's an eerie glimpse of the past " or is it the future? Bluish light illumines a space strewn with chalky objects of vaguely recognizable shape: obsolescent cameras, reels of old-fashioned film, dial telephones. White-garbed figures move around and between the objects, which disintegrate a little on meeting a hand, or a piece of fabric, or the floor. The scene speaks of decay, but also of creation: The crumbling tec…