Top image: Emilee Lord. Photo by David Rauch.
Bottom image: Alexa Wilson. Photo by Veronica Manchego. Q Theatre, Auckland, 2023.
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This evening of shared live solo works by Alexa Wilson and Emilee Lord offers an intimacy and vulnerability of experience from varying perspectives in the post-covid climate where the shared and individual bodily experience was altered over these years and our understandings of connection profoundly changed.
PROGRAM
Emilee Lord: HOME
HOME is a meditation, a ritual, a reminder, and a process. In words, live drawings, and dance Lord investigates what it means to be seen, what it means to be fruitful, and where our fullest selves reside. The work is rooted in the words of Henri Nouwen, “Stay home and trust that your life will be fruitful, even when hidden.”
Alexa Wilson: ALIEN
Part dance, part song, part embodied ted talk, part cyberpunk, part performance art, part possession, ALIEN embraces the body as foreign to self and others, often alienated inside change. ALIEN was developed over 2022 between Auckland NZ (Aotearoa/NZ) and New York on a Mothership residency and was performed at TinyFest Otautahi Christchurch and Q Theatre Auckland (Tāmaki Makaurau) NZ, 2023.
BIOGRAPHIES
Emilee Lord is a visual and performing artist. She investigates the multiple ways a drawing can be made, performed, and defined. She creates durational performances, installations, works on paper, and dance. Her current research explores ideas of accumulation, solitude, memory, and drawing as a performative act. She received her BA from Bennington College in 2004 and her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2007. She has been an artist in residence at Vermont Studio Center, Santa Fe Art Institute, Jentel Artist Residency, and SIM. As either visiting artist or professor, she has taught and lectured at Pratt Institute of Art, Caldwell University, College of Dupage, Bergen Community College, and Bard High School Early College. Lord writes for ThINKingDance online journal. She has performed and exhibited nationally and internationally, including in Santa Fe, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Reykjavik, Regio Emilia - as artistic director for THE DECK, and Toronto. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Alexa Wilson is a New Zealand dance, performance and video artist, writer and curator based pre-Covid in Berlin for 10 years. She is interested in political activation and intimacy as a form of socio-political healing, embodying difficult and contemporary themes from subjective and multi-dimensional perspectives. She has presented performance and video works in theatre, film and gallery spaces in NZ, Europe/UK, Asia, North America, and Australia. She has created works on NZ dance companies Touch Compass and Footnote NZ Dance Company and won awards for 3 works in NZ. She published Theatre of Ocean in 2022, has a First Class Master of Philosophy from AUT, curated Morni Hills Performance Residency in India (2017) and is Artistic Director of Experimental Dance Festival Aotearoa/NZ. She previously presented at CPR in 2013 (Oracle) and 2017 (Breathless with mayfield brooks).