Please join us for a special event at the Digital Armory

This event will feature a 52 minute film screening and a 30 minute dance performance. The Digital Armory is a historic building that features three large scale projections and an expansive and open viewing area.

*Please note that there is no seating in the space. We invite you to bring a cushion or blanket and snacks to enjoy the viewing comfortably. This event is family friendly, free and open to the public.

Overview of film:

How Much Air Lungs Can Hold is an experimental animation overlaid with interviews by Isabel Barfod.

Barfod is an animator and artist. Working across digital, hand-drawn, 2D and 3D animation, her work is driven by irritation and speculation, looking to process agitations through drawing, scratching and mark making.Her practice seeks to draw out the ‘hard-to-describe’ micro/experiences, feelings and phenomena associated with moving in and out of private/public space as a Black Queer person. Cloaking figures and gestures in abstraction, she evokes absurd, surreal and racialised social realities residing within the ephemeral encounter. As a means of working through her own uncertainty and frustrations, she images reparative and restitutive possibilities that are collectively-imagined and speculated.

Overview of dance performance by Tanniqua-Kay Buchanan

we eat our daughters/ i myself am the sun/ spinning in museums of revolution is a dance within a dance within a dance, an unfolding of layered worlds that intersect, collide, and reshape one another. It moves through memory and memory loss, ritual, water as both source and harm, and the spatial weight of bodies in the landscape. At its core, this performance is a research inquiry in motion, seeking to unearth ancestral and embodied movement knowledge and explore how that knowledge shapes, and is shaped by, the built environment (and bodies in space).

Guided by Choreographic phrasework and dance scores, this merging of both interrogates the ways movers and molders shift space, sometimes through resistance, sometimes through ritual, sometimes through simply taking up space. It is a dance that codifies movement through scores, sketches, and intuitive cartographies, offering a preliminary framework for how movement can be used to read, reimagine, and reclaim urban space.

It interrogates our participation in surveying ourselves and others, delves into themes of hyper-activation, bodies in space as well as surveillance. It asks the witness what are you prepared to do in order to spin in museums of revolutions as a force. It asks the doers and the witness: how a body in space can act as an archival tool whilst simultaneously uncovering who we are in the process of the carrying, holding and undoing. 

Through this embodied research, place becomes performance. Space becomes memory. 

Sound Design: Tanniqua-Kay Buchanan

Choreographer: Tanniqua-Kay Buchanan in Collaboration with Cast.

Cast:

Lilly Brunnick 

Elias Denning

Wren Goldman

Camille Hunt

Laura Jumper

Amanda Marie Lopez

Skyler Martin

Avery Maxwell; avery_aline

Kori Mayfield

Jessica McKay

Daeja Pacheco

Keira Saban

Alyssa Slatky