Contemporary Art Galleries continues the Radical Black Art and Performance Series
2/9/2021
Performance Screening: Last Work by Batsheva Dance Company
3:00pm - 4:00pm
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Trailer
Last Work, a piece by Ohad Naharin, a prodigious dancer and choreographer who is one of the most innovative of contemporary dance artists. His work is precise, delicate, calligraphic. He is the House Choreographer of Batsheva Dance Company and creator of the Gaga movement language.
Event Description: The piece is chockablock with torsions and unlikely body positions as it builds to a crescendo leading to ecstasy. The stage is bare. In the distance a woman runs on a treadmill. Her non-stop running on the spot traces the line of time, of history being repeated. The images generated by the 18 virtuoso dancers are very powerful, and not soon forgotten.
* Please join us for a brief discussion after the screening
2/9/2021
Emilio Martínez Poppe Workshop *General Public
5:00pm - 7:00pm
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Emilio Martínez Poppe is an artist working across installation, performance, participatory projects, and research-based collaborative projects. Their work engages collectivity, its practices and affects, and the politics of its representation. By connecting lived or speculative legacies of belonging through their spatial or linguistic formations Emilio’s projects address the archive as a site and as a social practice. Emilio earned a BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art and was a recipient of the SOMA+CU 2016 Scholarship for research in Mexico City. They have exhibited their work at FIERMAN, the Queens Museum, CUE Art Foundation, and Flux Factory in New York City; the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, and Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond, in Amsterdam; and The William Way LGBT Community Center in Philadelphia. Emilio has been an artist in residence at Abrons Arts Center, and Pratt Institute; a Fellow at The Laundromat Project; and a member of NEW INC at the New Museum. They are currently an MFA-MCP dual degree candidate at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of BFAMFAPhD.
Event Description: Join Emilio Martínez Poppe for an ekphrastic writing workshop that will engage Black and LGBTQ+ student organizing materials from the UConn Library Archives and Special Collections. In this workshop Emilio will also introduce their work and other artist’s work to share some of the ways they have engaged with the archival in creative practice. Participants will work independently and in small groups on a series of short exercises to create a conjectural archive of their own where ideas, places, feelings, and objects can coexist and form a basis from which to compose new meanings and create new work. Bring a notebook and some writing/drawing supplies. In anticipation of the workshop identify and bring one object that asks a question you are interested in addressing through creative writing and group work.
For more information, contact: Luke Seward at luke.seward@uconn.edu