[ ] (Anticipated premiere: 2025)
[ ] is a corporeal and sonic exploration into histories of female and femme ancestors created in collaboration with composer Angélica Negrón and an ensemble of creatives and performers. Together, we create an embodied exploration of untold and imagined histories. Weaving throughout a suspended interactive sculpture, the group uses performance’s hyper-attentive care to call in and hold experiences of private and personal memories of family lore, real/imagined histories, and femme ancestor's visible/invisible labor, ultimately asking “what is long ago but still right now?"
Preview Performances: March 21-23 at ODC Theater, San Francisco
The development and sharing of [ ] has been made possible by:
NYSCA Support for Artists;
A Harvestworks Artist Residency;
A Groundworks Residency;
A Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant;
A residency in the SLIPPAGE Lab at Northwestern University, dir. by professor Thomas DeFrantz;
A residency in the Barnard Movement Lab;
The MOtiVE Brooklyn For the Artsts! Residency program;
The LMCC Arts Center of Governors Island Rehearsal Week Program;
BRIClab 2021 at BRIC Brookly;
and a Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Space Grant in the David Rubenstein Atrium.
Commissioning of Negrón's music was generously funded by the Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation.
calling (ongoing)
Initiated during the pandemic as a way to connect with others across distance, I began calling : a series of micro works for voicemail in which participants call in to hear an evolving text and sound work. Each outgoing voicemail’s first-person narration addresses the listener directly; coupled with sound samples from Angélica Negrón and editing by Kathryn Logan, the resulting micro works investigate themes of ancestral memory and embodiment. Each ends with the invitation for the listener to leave a message in response, which could potentially be folded into future iterations of the project. When a participant calls the number and hears the outgoing message in calling, each listener is quite literally “called in” to the potential of a new awareness of ancestral memory.
