Black Aesthetics: Imagine Otherwise is a collaborative performance between Arien Wilkerson\Tnmot Aztro\Chloe Newton with sounds by Kwami Winfield
Imagine Otherwise is an invitation to Black artists to explore the possibilities of artistic practice. Inspired by the concept of otherwise possibility, curator Malcolm-x Betts asked choreographer, dancer, and installation artist Arien Wilkerson\Tnmot Aztro, their collaborator Chloe Newton, and sound Artist Kwami Winfield, “How do we act towards the outside violence and violent ways in the United States?”
Chloe Marie
Chloe Marie is a Philadelphia based multi disciplinary artist, born in San Diego California. Chloe went to the San Diego School of creative and performing arts- where she worked with Donald McKayle and Christopher Huggins. During this time She also performed works by Ana Sokolow and multiple Limon repertoires. Chloe moved to Philadelphia in 2013 to attend The University of the Arts, and received her BFA in 2017. During her time there she worked with Kyle and Dinita Clark, Curt Haworth, Doug Varone, Netta Yerushalmy, and Jesse Zaritt. Since graduating, Chloe has been a freelance performer working with many local Philadelphia artists and has shown works in New York, Pittsburg, and Maine.
Arien Wilkerson/TNMOT AZTRO
Arien Wilkerson/Tnmot Aztro considers the complexities within art derive from the alienation of objects, identities, the body, sounds, and humans and is rooted in repurposing and redefining meanings of "fine art" and it's attachment to colonialism, white supremacy, and institutionalized racism.
Their practice articulates epistemology, and ontology by producing large scale performance installations where audiences, public mass, or viewers are submerged within an immersive experience that populates multiple meanings, multiple engines and embody specific movement vocabularies, choreographic structures, and improvisations. Their discipline spans live performance, digital performance, immersive installation, large scale projection mapping and lighting design. Within their creative discipline, they work deeply with live, digital and noise sound experimentation, clothing design and fabrication, writing, scientific research, investigative journalism, community organizing, critical theory, queer studies, and presentation.
Kwami Winfield
Kwami Winfield is an artist from Jersey City, NJ currently based in Brooklyn, NY. She plays trumpet. Her work in sound attempts to emphasize the changeable nature of musical instruments through extension and exploration. She draws a line connecting possible sonic expressions back to the instrument via the body, betraying the intended use of instrument parts. Kwami has been a sound collaborator with Kyle Marshall Choreography since 2020 and has performed solo and collaborative music and performance in DIY venues, public spaces, unnamed locations.