Image: Sonja Blum, Compositions for a New World, 2019 (film still) plaster, urethane, three channel digital projection; Marika Whitaker, What holds what, 2018 (performance still) 2,453 map pins, one thread on drywall panel

Tickets: Free

Incision // falling together, holding apart is a working title and statement of intention for a new collaboration between Marika Whitaker and Sonja Blum. Both artists track movement in their work, mapping modes of connection as well as unravelling, tracking social flow, surges of collective energy and momentum to interrogate and experiment with how connection is created, enforced, made and unmade. Disruptions, blockages, rips, tears, cuts, holds, remains; their work explores all of these trans-material threshold states where the social body is in motion, on the way to being something else, in the flow, caught in the act, clung to, resisted, thrown. The artists will install and curate alongside each other at the Center for Performance Research over two days, opening their individual practices to cross contamination and blurring of material, intellectual and embodied boundaries, performing an openness to connectivity of mind and material that attempts to make both the threads that connect us and the ways we cut out explicitly palpable and open for consideration. A public viewing of the work and opening reception will occur on Sunday, December 1st from 4:00-6:00 p.m.

Artists: Marika Whitaker and Sonja Blum

Image: Sonja Blum, Compositions for a New World, 2019 (film still) plaster, urethane, three channel digital projection; Marika Whitaker, What holds what, 2018 (performance still) 2,453 map pins, one thread on drywall panel