Wednesday May 15 2013
06:30pm–09:00pm
For The Oncoming Corner #6, devynn emory is invited to talk about a new project. They created three scores as part of their current residency at Issue Project − baby / grapefruit baby / one brown one creme.
devynn emory writes: I want performance to insist on another version of reality. I want to contribute to a queering of a performance aesthetic that invites a closer relationship to the ways we actually see and experience the world. I want to not only move from a queer lineage of resistance and outrage—I also want to, as a mixed-race Native American person, welcome this queer movement on staged ground with peace and persistence. I want to create an experience that is just for us, shifting the experience from the position of object to a position of subject. As we culturally step forward into a boldness of being seen, the foreground of what is missing is strong. Can we fill that empty space by joining our bodies together?
The duet textvocal piece grapefruit baby will be presented on site, with devynn and vocal artist Margot Bassett.