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Doors 6:30pm, program begins 7pm
Photo by Scott Shaw.
Join us in the final week of An Inherent Undoing for a performance by Marguerite Hemmings, followed by reflections from the artist alongside exhibition curator Gervais Marsh.
“How to care for the injured body, the kind of body that can’t hold the content it is living?” - Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
To live in the impasse when repair cannot contend with the depth of harm is a constant negotiation of what the body can hold. Traversing an ever-contorting emotional landscape, the tensions linger long after you are told the violence has been rectified. Can you inhabit the unpredictable swell of feelings that are stifled under the demands to embrace “progress”? The shape of harm shifts. Congeals. Sediments. Accumulates. Can there be political potency channeled through despair and destruction?
Marguerite Hemmings is a Jamaican-American artist and educator specializing in emergent social movement styles and technologies. Focused on the liberatory, counteractive, and slippery role of the dancer, Marguerite has gravitated towards experimental African Diasporic movement practices. They channel these practices in performance, body, text, sound, social/public media, and moving image.
Marguerite has received grants and fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, Brooklyn Arts Council, Harlem Stage, University Settlement, Dancing While Black, Urban Bush Women’s Choreographic Center Initiative, Arizona State University’s Projecting All Voices, Abrons Arts Center, Headlong Performance Institute, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Mural Arts, Black Spatial Relics, and Independence Public Media Foundation to further their research. They've received a Bessie Award for Outstanding Performer in Eva Yaa Asantewaa’s Skeleton Architecture as well as directed and performed in the Bessie nominated piece, we free. They’ve also taught with the University of the Arts, Arizona State University, Princeton University, and many afterschool programs and community centers and is currently an MFA candidate with the NYU program in Dance: Interdisciplinary Research.
This program was organized by Gervais Marsh, with support from Charles de Agustin. All of our programs are free and open to the public with RSVPs encouraged. Info on accessing our space can be found here. Email us with any questions.
Image description: A Black performer wearing a loose open button-down and denim shorts is in movement, in front of a large wall projection of low-quality home video footage.