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Spring 2023: Rain, Clouds, Unicorns, and Rainbows
“My hunch is that joy is an ember for or precursor to wild and unpredictable and transgressive and unboundaried solidarity. And that that solidarity might incite further joy. Which might incite further solidarity. And on and onn. . . It’s why I think of joy, which gets us to love, as being a practice of survival.” - Excerpt From: Ross Gay. “Inciting Joy.”
Particles of water or ice are suspended in the air, become submerged into one another until they are too big to float, and fall to the ground as rain, snow, sleet, hail drizzle, cats and dogs, and liquid sunshine until all of life depends on the resulting fresh water. Rain is changing too and, like clouds, is in abundance or scarce.
Then there is a rainbow! Sometimes even two! Suddenly there is magic in the air as the full spectrum of light shines back down on us. Rainbows seem invisible, like to magic of unicorns, until we find them, and when we see them, they see us.
Spring 2023 at Grace Exhibition Space: We are expressing the multitude of rain and clouds and unicorns and rainbows that allow us to find the resulting joy.
PERFORMANCES
"Strange Bird" Part 2, Verse 1: Doing great, for 23. - by Honey McMoney
“After ten years in New York City, I moved to New York City, still heading toward Utopia.” Upcycling the Strong Queer Energy of/through re-arrival with the shimmy shimmer of joyous (pro)vocation, of ruffling feathers and bells on the wind.
Untitled (for now…) - Joseph Sledgianowski not on anyone's side,
DEEP MOON, PLUTO, AQUARIUS - KUBA FALK
“We dive within to go outside…”
"We are not on anyone's side,
but our own"
The performer performs his "body-tale," finding himself with the audience on the set of an imaginary tesseract (a four-dimensional hypercube composed of eight cubical cells and vertices), using two monitors, video projection, sound and text.
This tale refers to the slow motion of Pluto, which in the convulsions of the earth's body brings pearls of light from its underground travels. The body, human flesh, melds with silicon technology. We view ourselves in the mirror of both the light and dark side of the moon. Craters of memories. Crumbling structures. Suits for interstellar travel woven from dark-light-matter of experienced emotions. Neurons connected to stars. From the open mouth of a dying Chronos emerges the face of the Great Mother.
ANTI-FERTILITY ritual - performance by Jamie and amanda
We love our children and want to do the best for them, create a place for them where they can thrive. And we believe we have succeeded! Created the perfect world for our babies to never have to die, never degrade, never be eaten. A world where they can grow without limitations and inherit the earth. Today we are celebrating the end of fertility! When nothing can be born again, nothing can die. We’ve finally ended death, ended the cycle of samsara, and we invite you to witness our utopia of abundance and eternal life.
performers
Honey McMoney
“Things I like: mystical experience, dance of life, imaginations are infinities, we are the leaky boundaries between infinities, how big is the inside? How spacious is this vessel? Inside this spacious skin sack? Leaking, seeping, constant threats of rupture - of what are we inside? Spacious sacks within spacious sacks. From somewhere on a whirling spheroid garden rock, the not-even-close-to-being-knowable, we (a mucus fleck), Leaking (with) - all of this - , to eat and excrete for a lifetime, and find wonder and joy and compassion in that.
Carnegie Hall ---> Yes
Art School ---> Nope
b. 1970 Upstate NY USA
Let the mind wander
This art is queer”
Joseph Sledgianowski
is a multimedia artist, working primarily in performance, sound, and mixed-medium visual and installation works. He was born in New Jersey, currently living in Ridgewood, Queens, NY.
A current major focus into perspectives of time and space, mental functioning, and continuous communication and miscomprehension.
Kuba Falk
“For me, performance is the most organic form of communication, so it is my main, though not the only, medium of work. It is also a low-carbon medium, which is not insignificant today. A public performance is usually preceded by a long process of exploring a given topic, during which drawings, musical pieces, videos and texts are created, which may later be incorporated into the show or constitute autonomous works. For a performance I prepare a structure, a kind of script, which I then fill in with individual elements, always leaving space for improvisation, that is, an energetic dialogue with the audience and the venue. I am interested in a lively connection, a direct and sincere presence with the audience, to whom I serve bizarre entertainment at high emotional frequencies, so that the body and intellectual mind have something to feed on.”