x. Photo by Rachel Keane.
Unfortunately, this event has been cancelled.
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Join CPR 2023 Artist-in-Residence x on Zoom for an evening of riveting discussion and digitized riots. Participants will engage in intersectional conversation across gender, race, performance, and the Prison Industrial Complex. While it’s no secret that queer and trans Black folk have led revolutions for generations, many of us have dedicated our lives to creating…art. Does a calendar chock full of performances mean we have thrown in the towel? Or can the contemporary push for abolition start in the white box/black box? Utilizing readings and provocative questions posed by x, we’ll dive in deep. No preparation is needed to attend. This program is open to attendees of all genders and embodiments. Come if you’ve got things to say; stay if you’ve got things to learn.
Readings and media will be sent prior to the event with your RSVP, and include selections from:
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex edited by Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith
Disindentifications: Queers of Color and the Politics of Performance by José Esteban Muñoz (“The White to Be Angry” Vaginal Creme Davis’s Terrorist Drag)
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton
The Beginning of a Dream: A Film by Tourmaline for Trans Justice funding Project
x (they/ze/fae)is a choreographer, curator, Intimacy Coordinator, TRANSdisciplinary artist, and a CPR 2023 Artist-in-Residence. In their creative practice, x offers a conceptual and anti-technique approach to movement-driven performance. Their work leans towards the experimental, avant-garde, and anti-modern. The source material for their work stems from personal experiences and often critiques carceral systems such as the Medical Industrial Complex and Child “Welfare” System. The visceral catharsis brought out through their work is what x calls “performative processing”; as they work through confusion, chronic illness, childhood trauma, and bigotry.
This program will take place virtually, on Zoom. ASL and audio description services are available upon request by emailing Anna Muselmann, Programs Manager at anna@cprnyc.org at least two weeks prior to the event. Auto-generated captioning will be available through Zoom.