Marginalia is two female bodies, intimate, impetuous. A scribbled commentary on the official text of subjectification and objectification, sexualization and desexualization, demonization and domestication. Two women lift, work, sweat, and touch. Claiming the nuanced complexity of female rapport. Things that happen every day. Tiny revolts, unseen, unrecorded. Or a revolt upheld and enlarged by each witness.
“rapid and unrelenting, fearlessly yielding to momentum… the gestures are gentle, yet alarming and incredibly exposed”
“one of the most powerful theatrical experiences I can remember”
Tend + as though, currently in development, are independent companion pieces, imagined as an installation diptych with juxtaposed environments that support the live performance and function as installation art. Both are scheduled for provisional performances in fall 2021.
Tend, is a service based performance experience fulfilling a socially requisite and biologically exigent allogrooming need accompanied with self-care devised movement distractions focused to organize the nervous system, resolve conflicts, and contemplate power differentials all in the motile architecture of a possible post-pandemic convalescence environment.
as though your body were right (and the gentler world mistaken) exists in a micro-theater for four audience members at a time. The curtain rises on a slowly shifting landscape. This is the performer’s body, engaging a palette of micro-movement that draws attention not to the overall human form, but to the cells and tissues of the body as the actors in a movement chorus.
KHECARI’S REDRESS INITIATIVE
As an organization committed to the essential place that art-making holds in our world, Khecari is committed to ethical rigorousness in our behavior and policies, which includes working against all forms of bigotry, and to supporting the personal activism and anti-bigotry efforts of those individuals who comprise Khecari. We are asking, how can we take regular action now but also consider these questions not finished, so that we don’t shelve them as “solved”? In light of ongoing social and environmental unrest, we are working to centralize redress efforts within our ethics through developing ongoing, concrete practices that work everyday to better support our community. More information is available here.
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