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Category: Performing Arts

Dolly Parton stands on a stage in front of a microphone with a guitar, wearing a pink jumpsuit. Men in decorative brown suits are behind her on the stage by instruments, an audience is sitting in chairs behind them, and a body of water and green mountains are in the background.
1"Dolly Parton performs at 1973 dedication of Cordell Hull Dam" by NashvilleCorps is licensed with CC BY-SA 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

The Audience’s Work Is to Listen: On Communication and Chaos

Anna Marie Shogren

On misreading, over-translation, nonverbal understanding, and the pitfalls of legibility

Tags: audiencelanguage
Photo of two women draped in white fabric rolling down the stairs of Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
1Eiko Otake and Chitra Vairavan rehearsing in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine during an exhibit on the divine feminine, November 26, 2016. Photo: Wm Johnston.

Deep Listening: Creating from Memories and Speaking through Dance

Chitra Vairavan

Dancer and choreographer Chitra Vairavan offers a blueprint for the decolonized spiritual, as a movement towards reflection, presence, and memory.

Tags: decolonizationliberationlisteningprocessspirituality
Performing Arts
2-22-2021

Impossible Performances

Charles Campbell
Aerial view of a convex mound of dirt lit with stadium lights at night, with apartment buildings in the background
1Jasper Marsalis, Stadium, 2020. Soil, concrete, LED parking lot lights, light poles, skid steers. 146 x 117 x 12 feet. Image courtesy the artist and Midway Contemporary Art; photo by Aaron Van Dyke.
Performing Arts Visual Art
1-23-2021

The Convex (No Place Is or Ever Was Empty)

Alexandra Nicome
Dolly Parton stands on a stage in front of a microphone with a guitar, wearing a pink jumpsuit. Men in decorative brown suits are behind her on the stage by instruments, an audience is sitting in chairs behind them, and a body of water and green mountains are in the background.
1"Dolly Parton performs at 1973 dedication of Cordell Hull Dam" by NashvilleCorps is licensed with CC BY-SA 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
Performing Arts Visual Art
1-22-2021

The Audience’s Work Is to Listen: On Communication and Chaos

Anna Marie Shogren
Photo of two women draped in white fabric rolling down the stairs of Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
1Eiko Otake and Chitra Vairavan rehearsing in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine during an exhibit on the divine feminine, November 26, 2016. Photo: Wm Johnston.
Performing Arts
1-20-2021

Deep Listening: Creating from Memories and Speaking through Dance

Chitra Vairavan
Intricate arcing paint strokes of black, tan, and grey/white swirl around the majority of the canvas, more concentrated near the bottom. The gaps between the strokes are filled with different patters, and form into faces in the lower half of the painting.
1Ta-coumba T. Aiken, The Promise from the series NO WORDS (2020). Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
Literature Performing Arts
1-11-2021

Fire Water Word Wind Song

Signe V. Harriday
1Image by Tricia Heuring (2020).
Design Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
12-30-2020

Everything you do you must love: On curatorial practice driven by devotion

Tricia Heuring
Korean stone sculptures from the Joseon Dynasty, in an outdoor exhibit at the Korean Stone Art Museum. Eight light stone sculptures, in the form of human figures with hands clasped, stand in a grove of gravel, bushes, and trees.
1Photo by the author, May 2019.
Literature Performing Arts Visual Art
10-28-2020

Decolonizing the Invisible & Visible: Artists Illuminate the Potent Presence of Spirit in their Creative Practices

Sun Yung Shin
A collage featuring three tarot cards in the left corner: the Four of Pentacles, Five of Cups and the Wheel of Fortune. In the right corner there is light-skinned black femme with teary eyes and the words "The EARTH inside you was stolen from me" written across their forehead. The bottom of the collage is various types of foliage and a path surrounded by trees. In the bottom right the phrase "i still say your name when i pray" is repeated three times.
1Image courtesy of the author.
Literature Performing Arts
10-14-2020

In the face of Black death, I perpetually find myself slipping into an alternate dimension

Teighlor McGee
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1Commarrah Bashar, Occupied Ancestor: Standing Cedars in Early Translight (2020)
Literature Performing Arts
9-7-2020

Elulin

Commarrah Bashar
Two figures, shaded by colorful hues of blue, green and pink, are seen floating in a cosmos linked together by a water-bearing object, one figure is wielding a flag. From their posture, slightly bent, they would appear to be elderly, ancestral. Around the figures two planets are connected by streams of blue line.
1Elizabeth LaPensée, Our Grandmothers Carry Water from the Other World (2016).
Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
8-28-2020

Afro-Indigenous Futurisms and Decolonizing Our Minds

Juleana Enright
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1Amoke Kubat’s Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired Chair assembly and build workshop, in partnership with the Women’s Woodshop and the Water Bar, June 2019.
Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
7-24-2020

REST: A Transatlantic Reflection

Ain Bailey, Sayge Carroll, Zenzele Isoke, Amoke Kubat, Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski, and Rehana Zaman
Keagy-SanJoaquin
1San Joaquin, R. Yun (2020).
Literature Moving Image Performing Arts
7-1-2020

Eating earth, cleansing bones: Notes on a family exhumed

R. Yun

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