Week 1: RE|Claim with Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith, Aretha Aoki, Katherine De La Cruz, Mai Lê Grooves & WTF is gender panel
RE|Claim with short works-in-progress by Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith, Aretha Aoki and Ryan MacDonald, Katherine De La Cruz, Mai Lê Grooves & a WTF is gender panel by Sasa Yung at The Kraine. Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith’s feminist works use abstract dance to break down patriarchal systems of female degradation through physical paradigms. As objects of this work, the artists position themselves as recognizable images of female objectification, only to deconstruct and reconstitute these forms through embodied movement and connection. Within this arena of deeply understood femininity and friendship, images dissolve as feelings communicate viscerally. Aretha Aoki’s “IzumonookunI” is sci-fi-punk-futuristic mixed media dance piece by Aretha Aoki and Ryan MacDonald. Incorporating dance, built objects, and original sound and video design, the piece braids together the (her)story of Kabuki theater, the women who have been erased in Aretha Aoki’s family due to the patriline, and the structure of “strange loops”— cyclic forms that evade their hierarchical and linear-seeming progressions. In “Le pot”, Mai Lê journeys through waves of personal challenge relating to self, others, dreams, and growth. Katherine De La Cruz’s “Casas de Carton”uses this famous Salvadorean protest song in a reflection of Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano’s question "What use does the idea of Utopia have?" as a call to attention about inequality and the exploitation of working class people. The evening will close with a “WTF is gender” panel convened by trans visual artist and Pasons School of Design student Sasa Yung. Curated by maura nguyên donohue.
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