The Radical Black Art and Peformance Series @ Contemporary Art Galleries continues!
2/10/2021
Performance Screening: Lovepiece by Tnmot Aztro
5:30pm – 6:30pm
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Event Description: Lovepiece is about the work it takes to build a healthy relationship with yourself using movement/sound, to uncover the process of healing from rejection, hate, poverty and humiliation within black/brown queer romantic relationships. Spontaneous, erotic, queer, open-ended, club and Latin American-inspired melodramas paired with transgressive experiential outlooks on love takes the audience through the lens of queer POC relationships, specifically the dichotomy between Black and Latino queer relationships, and the exchange of culture with attachments to the harboring feelings of wanting to be accepted, wanting to be in financially stable relationships, being “out” in public, being young and hiv positive and being put on a pillory for your own personal act of love.
In Lovepiece the audience makes their way through Wilkerson’s transgressive experiences as a queer person. Wilkerson’s personal relationship with their status, family and past lovers are then directed towards how they manifested their own community or family. Interfamily based issues revolving the shame of loving the same sex comes directly from how we are taught or not taught queerness as a child to an adult. The innocence of being a queer child is easily dismantled by the way we as a society of people frame, process and discover queerness and queer people.
Conceived & conceptualized: Arien Wilkerson & domsentfrommars
Choreography: Arien Wilkerson
Set conceptual & design: Arien Wilkerson, Joe McCarthy, domsentfrommars
Sculpture Construction: Joe McCarthy
Lighting design: Jon-Paul LaRocco & Arien Wilkerson
Lighting Construction: Jon-Paul LaRocco, Emma Graydon, Dan East
Musical Director: Zach Rowden
Cast & Performers: domsentfrommars, Karim Rome, Zach Rowden
Costume design & construction: domsentfrommars
Creative Consultant: Derek Jackson
All Original music by: domsentfrommars, Karim Rome, Zach Rowden with music from Juan Gabriel, Los Angeles Negros, Arianna Grande, Lara Plantonos, Kevin
* Please join us for a brief discussion after the screening
For more information, contact: Luke Seward at luke.seward@uconn.edu