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Tag: decolonization

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
Photo from the back of a movie theater with ornate chandeliers, many people in seats and Arabic writing against a landscape on the screen.
1Solidarity Evening for Palestine at the Heights Theater. Courtesy Mizna. Photo: Makeen Osman.
Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
9-24-2024

Practicing Solidarity, Living Values: A Conversation with Mizna

Aegor Ray
Person with dark skin and slightly open mouth, photo cropped between their top lip and their throat.
1Allison Bolah, No Accident, 2012. Video still. Courtesy the artist.
Literature Visual Art
7-8-2022

Noting the Throat/La garganta, anotada

Alcibíades Elián
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
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
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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