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).
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