Eleanor Kipping. Photo courtesy the artist.
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Sunday Salon supports work by CPR resident artists at various stages of development, and may take many forms, including presentations of live work, installations, artist talks, and exhibitions of research, materials, and ephemera. This program will feature new work in development by three of CPR’s 2023 Artists-in-Residence: Orlando Hernández uses technologies of tap dance, improvisation, and mask work to explore/explode myth, identity, and narrative; Eleanor Kipping integrates the notion of “virus as other” at the intersections of public health, politics, and stigma through an exploration of Western media, political speech, public persuasion, and propaganda in [transmission]; and Alex Romania wonders at the idea of 'the sick american psyche' in a fantastic and absurd enactment of the self with Face Eaters, the final work in their multidisciplinary triptych Whoops!.
Orlando Hernández
Orlando Hernández will share a window into a process they've been developing using technologies of tap dance, improvisation, and mask work to explore/explode myth, identity, and narrative. Hernández is a tap dancer and choreographer based in New Jersey. He has presented his work at On the Boards, La Casa Ruth, SPACE Gallery, the Provincetown Dance Festival, Dance Now at Joe's Pub, and Movement Research at the Judson Church. He is a member of the companies Subject:Matter and Music from the Sole. Orlando is the recipient of fellowships from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, the New England Foundation for the Arts, the Brown Arts Initiative, and Yaddo, and is a 2022-2023 Fresh Tracks Artist at New York Live Arts and a 2023 Artist-in-Residence at the Center for Performance Research.
Eleanor Kipping: [transmission]
Eleanor Kipping’s multi-disciplinary practice is in the exploration of the experience of the Black body in the United States through the examination and deconstruction of historical and contemporary narratives. She is interested in the public, private, and civic negotiations of race, gender, and the practice and effect of violence and surveillance on the body and mind. [transmission] is a series of solo performances that integrate the notion of “virus as other” at the intersections of public health, politics, and stigma through an exploration of Western media, political speech, public persuasion, and propaganda. Employing the vintage television console as a point of orientation, the work appropriates text from political speech and public service announcement archives ranging from the first fireside chats to health notifications sent en masse via text.
Alex Romania: Face Eaters
Face Eaters is the final work in Whoops! the trilogy of interdisciplinary live works by Alex Romania. Following KLUTZ (2018, Abrons Arts Center), and junkhead (2019, BKSD), Face Eaters will premiere as an evening-length work at The Chocolate Factory in May 2024. The works utilize iconographic intersections of horror, SciFi, home movies, broadcast media to twist the elbow of the religion of aesthetics, recalibrating the dangers of good / bad. In healing and hurt, wandering the mirror where personal sickness and societal sickness meet, the works traverse the psychedelic everyday of autobiography, where grief, love, loss, and resilience shine. Face Eaters wonders at the idea of 'the sick american psyche' in a fantastic and absurd enactment of the self.
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