Contents for June 27, 2022
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1. Saya Woolfalk, FF Alumn, at Penn Station, Manhattan
2. Micki Watanabe Spiller, FF Alumn, receives Queens Arts Fund 2022 New Work Grant
3. Todd Ayoung, Sowon Kwon, Shirin Neshat, Carol Sun, Martin Wong, Charles Yuen, FF Alumns, now online at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan
4. Francheska Alcántara, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times
5. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, now online at WESH 2 TV, Orlando, FL
6. John Held, Jr., FF Alumn, new publication with Red Fox Press
7. Candace Hill-Montgomery, Liza Lou, Kiki Smith, FF Alumns, at The Church, Sag Harbor, NY, thru Sept. 18
8. R. Sikoryak, Kriota Willberg, FF Alumns, at The City Reliquary, Brooklyn, June 30
9. Steed Taylor, FF Alumn, now online at ArtDaily.com
10. Guerrilla Girls, FF Alumns, in Miami, FL, thru June 20 and more
11 Laurie Anderson, Christo, Pauline Oliveros, FF Alumns, now online in The New York Times
12. Doug Skinner, Norman Conquest, FF Alumns, new publication with Black Scat Books
13. Eidia House, FF Alumns, at Plato’s Cave, Brooklyn, July 14 and more
14. Kriota Willberg, FF Alumn, summer news
15. Russet Lederman, FF Alumn, now online at https://behindthecamerajapan.arts.ubc.ca/
16. William Scarbrough, FF Alumn, now online, Untitled, Cape Town, South Africa
17. Erica Van Horn, FF Alumn, new publication
18. Candace Hill-Montgomery, FF Alumn, at Art Springs Studio, East Hampton, NY, opening July 2
19. Hector Canonge, FF Alumn, summer news
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1. Saya Woolfalk, FF Alumn, at Penn Station, Manhattan
Thanks to @debrasimonartconsulting and #sharonTepper for bringing my work to Penn Station. Posted @withregram • @rcembalest Wow! @sayawoolfalkstudio brings Empathics Universe to Penn Station in a vast installation that transforms Amtrak’s waiting room space into a portal to another dimension. The digital prints feature Woolfalk’s fictional race of women who can fuse with plants, along with patterns of medicinal plants in the New York and New Jersey areas. New commission for #ArtatAmtrak, curated by @debrasimonartconsulting #SayaWoolfalk #PennStation
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2. Micki Watanabe Spiller, FF Alumn, receives Queens Arts Fund 2022 New Work Grant
Micki Watanabe Spiller has received a 2022 Queens Arts Fund New Work Grant from the Queens Council on the Arts with the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the Greater New York Arts Development Fund for a project with the Queens Public Library which encourages family literacy with handmade artists’ book bag multiples. www.MickiSpiller.com
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3. Todd Ayoung, Sowon Kwon, Shirin Neshat, Carol Sun, Martin Wong, Charles Yuen, FF Alumns, now online at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan
Please visit this link:
https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/articles/2022/5/library-aapi-heritage-month-2022
Thank you.
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4. Francheska Alcántara, FF Alumn, now online in The New York Times
Please visit this link:
https://www.nytimes.com/article/new-york-art-galleries.html
Thank you.
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5. Jay Critchley, FF Alumn, now online at WESH 2 TV, Orlando, FL
https://www.wesh.com/article/pulse-victims-remembered-orlando/40257224
“The angels are still dancing,” at the installation of the Prayer Ribbons from the Provincetown Swim for Life honoring the 49 victims with gold inscribed names on black ribbons and one for those injured.
Church bells could be heard in the background during a moment of silence at Orlando City Hall.
“I continue to be proud of our community, we did not respond with hate or fear, we responded with love and compassion and unity,” Mayor Buddy Dyer said.
Prayer ribbons are again in place in Orlando, waving in the downtown breeze, first sent 6 years ago from Provincetown, Massachusetts.
“The ribbons dance in the wind, and I think the angels are still dancing the night away,” said Jay Critchley, of Provincetown.
There were messages of hope, unity, along with messages that change is needed.
“We have to do something in this country, about senseless gun violence, because it continues, over and over and over again, and this cannot be normal,” City Commissioner Patty Sheehan said.
Sheehan echoed what many have been saying as mass shootings are still at the top of our minds.
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6. John Held, Jr., FF Alumn, new publication with Red Fox Press
Please visit this link:
http://redfoxpress.com/AB-held.html
Thank you.
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7. Candace Hill-Montgomery, Liza Lou, Kiki Smith, FF Alumns, at The Church, Sag Harbor, NY, thru Sept. 18
THE CHURCH ANNOUNCES SUMMER EXHIBITION “THREADING THE NEEDLE”
An Exhibition of Contemporary Art using Fabric and Fiber Practices Opening June 30, 2022
6-8PM
The show features works by 50 international and local artists, including El Anatsui, Tabitha
Arnold, Louise Bourgeois, Diedrick Brakens, Margarita Cabrera, Nick Cave, Judy Chicago,
Helena Hernmarck, Candace Hill-Montgomery, Alice Hope, Mike Kelley, Laurie Lambrecht,
Dinh Q. Le, Daniel Lind-Ramos, Christa Maiwald, Charles McGill, Ernesto Neto, Maria
Nepomuceno, Sheila Pepe, Erin M. Riley, Faith Ringgold, Toni Ross, Bastienne Schmidt, Alan
Shields, Julianne Swartz, and Hank Willis Thomas.
Exhibition Dates: July 1 – September 18, 2022
SAG HARBOR, NY. The Church is pleased to present Threading the Needle, an exhibition of work by contemporary artists using fabric and fiber practices, curated by Sara Cochran and
Eric Fischl. The exhibition will run from July 1st – September 18, 2022.
The exhibition features 46 works by 50 artists and includes a large-scale, site-specific work
by Sheila Pepe, installed hanging from the building’s rafters, the first time an artist has
worked specifically with the historic architecture of our building. The show was planned
around four themes. The first focus explores the Body and its Distortions and highlights a
Soundsuit by Nick Cave, a vitrine by Louise Bourgeois, figurative tapestries by Enrico David, Christine Forrer, and Erin Riley, a bonnet by Angela Ellsworth, sculptural works by Thomas Friedman, Charles LeDray, James Lee Byars, and Liza Lou, as well as a monumental piece by Daniel Lind-Ramos.
The second theme is that of Politics and Identity that includes Margarita Cabrera’s potted
desert plants made from border guard uniforms, Dink Q. Le’s interwoven photographic
images of films about the Vietnam War and from the War itself, Charles McGill’ assemblages of golf bags that recall Guston’s paintings of the Klu Klux Klan, fabric pieces by Judy Chicago, Faith Ringgold and Hank Willis Thomas, a handkerchief by Ann Morton, tapestries by Tabitha Arnold and Diedrick Brakens, and sculptural installations by Christa Maiwald.
The third section explores the idea of Webbing, beginning with a brass spider’s web by Jim
Hodges, a bottle cap tapestry by El Anatsui, a Coke tab work by Alice Hope, a bead and
ceramic wall piece by Maria Nepomuceno, a hanging pieces by Ernesto Neto and Julianne
Swartz, a tapestry woven between a tree branch by Candace Hill-Montgomery, wall pieces
by Toni Ross and Tomas Saraceno and a woven sculpture by Alan Saret.
The last part of the checklist explores Stitching and includes tapestries by Etel Adnan, Helena Hernmarck and Rosemarie Trockel, a printed piece using tapestries by Louise Eastman, cloth pieces by Bastienne Schmidt and Alan Shields, embroidery by Mark Olshansky, and an altered, appropriated tapestry by Lucy Winton.
The compelling works gathered for this exhibition question and blur the artificial boundaries between fine art and craft as well as between genres historically associated with feminine or masculine roles. By tapping into the rich historical vein of traditionally handmade crafts, contemporary artists have, in greater numbers, been adapting and utilizing techniques derived from tapestry, weaving, embroidery, beading, quilting, and knitting that have profound effects on the meaning and aesthetics of their work. In counterpoint, craft practitioners have taken up the conceptual mantle of contemporary art to imbue their legacy materials with a new resonance. Artworks in this exhibition expand an aesthetic conversation into the realms of fashion, design, politics, race, gender identity and technology. From intimate scaled works to immersive site-specific installations, these works reinterpret the histories of art and fabric and add nuance to principles of contemporary art. Questions of the interplay between skill, technique and concept are at the center of this exhibition, challenging a cultural hierarchy that has traditionally privileged painting and sculpture and has valued certain skill sets while disregarding others.
The artists in the exhibition come from America, Africa, Europe, and South America. They create work that is figurative and abstract, large, and small, sculptural, and architectural, as well as playful and serious.
Eric Fischl stated: “So much of how we think about or describe the aspects and conditions of our lives and our community use fabric, fiber, thread as metaphors to help us understand who we are and where we are. It is our culture that weaves us together. We know that our beliefs and values can become tattered and worn. In moments of great stress, we might feel we are only holding on by a thread. What we have done or not been able to do forms the tapestry of our lives. The joys and struggles we experience touch the very fiber of our souls. Society, family and even our sense of self are all about building and maintaining a network of connectedness. These knots, these ties that bind, with all their care and complexity is at the heart of our exhibition, Threading the Needle.”
Chief Curator Sara Cochran added: “This is going to be an opportunity for our visitors to see some work they may know in a new light and discover other artists who are dealing with the essential questions of our time. The exhibition explores what happens when the conceptual approaches of art and the skills involved in fabric practices come together and produce artworks that challenge expectations in the arenas of art and craft, changing both fields. The work of these extraordinary artists is going to transform the building and surprise the public. There are going to be a lot of interesting and fun conversations this summer at The Church!”
Artists in the show include: Etel Adnan (Lebanese-American, 1925 – 2021), El Anatsui
(Ghanaian, b. 1944), Tabitha Arnold (American), Louise Bourgeois (French-American,
1911-2010), Diedrick Brackens (American, b.1989), James Lee Byars (American, 1932-1997), Margarita Cabrera (Mexican-American, b. 1973), Nick Cave (American, b.1959), Judy Chicago (American, b.1939), Chuck Close (American, 1940-2021), Enrico David (Italian, b.1966) Angela Ellsworth (American), Louise Eastman (American, b.1966), Christine Forrer (Swiss-American, b.1978), Thomas Friedman (American, b.1965), Helena Hernmarck (Swedish-American, b.1941), Candace Hill Montgomery (American, b.1945), Jim Hodges (American, b.1957), Alice Hope (American), Mike Kelley (American, 1954-2012), Laurie Lambrecht (American, born 1955), Dinh Q. Lê (Vietnamese-American, b.1968), Charles LeDray (American, b.1960), Daniel Lind-Ramos (American-Puerto Rican, b.1953), Liza Lou (American, b.1969), Christa Maiwald (American), Charles McGill (American, 1964-2017), Ann Morton (American), Maria Nepomuceno (Brazilian, b.1976), Ernesto Neto (Brazilian, b.1964), Mark Olshansky (American), Sheila Pepe (American, b.1959), Erin M. Riley (American, b.1985), Faith Ringgold (American, b.1930), James Rosenquist (American, 1933-2017), Toni Ross (American), Tomás Saraceno (Argentinian, b.1973), Alan Saret (American, b.1944), Bastienne Schmidt (German-American, b.1961), Alan Shields (American, 1944-2005), Kiki Smith (German-American, b. 1954), Julianne Swartz (American, b.1967), Rosemarie Trockel (German, b.1952), Hank Willis Thomas (American, b.1976), and Lucy Winton (American, b. 1956).
About THE CHURCH
Housed in a deconsecrated 19th century Methodist church, The Church is an artist residency, exhibition space, and creativity center. It is a place where local and national artists and creatives of all stripes work, meet and inspire each other. Artists Eric Fischl and April Gornik bought the building as a shell three years ago and have led its redesign with Skolnick Architecture + Design Partnership. The modern interior complements its historic frame and is emblematic of the contemporary program of events that animate the structure. The Church will increase access to the arts for our diverse audiences, foster creativity on the East End, and honor Sag Harbor’s long tradition as a maker’s village.
For more information visit: www.thechurchsagharbor.org.
Contact:
Cecilia Weaver, Deputy Director
The Church
48 Madison Street
Sag Harbor, NY 11963 cecilia@thechurchsagharbor.org
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8. R. Sikoryak, Kriota Willberg, FF Alumns, at The City Reliquary, Brooklyn, June 30
Carousel: Comics Performances returns with an outdoor, in-person show at The City Reliquary!
Presentations of graphic novels and comics as performed by the writers/artists with projected slides and music.
Featuring
Julia Gfrörer
Jennifer Hayden
Lisa Lim
Amy Reeder
Sofia Warren
Kriota Willberg
Yao Xiao
Hosted by R. Sikoryak.
The show will be followed by a book signing.
This is an all-vaccinated event.
At The City Reliquary
370 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Thursday, June 30, 2022
Times: 7:30pm door 8:00pm show
Tickets: $10 Pre-Sale and $12 Day-Of
https://withfriends.co/event/14590860/carousel_comics_performances
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9. Steed Taylor, FF Alumn, now online at ArtDaily.com
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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10. Guerrilla Girls, FF Alumns, in Miami, FL, thru June 20 and more
Artwork by the award-winning poet Faylita Hicks will make its debut as a billboard on the corner of SW 8th Street and SW 32nd Avenue. The artist served 45 days in jail on a warrant for a $25 bounced check when they were in college. Since then, Faylita has been dedicated to bringing to light the injustices of the US incarceral system. Faylita is one of the 6 participating artists in the public art exhibition titled 8×5, a show of artworks calling for judicial reform that will be unveiled in Miami, FL beginning the week of June 13th on view through July 20th. The exhibition will then travel to New York City, Houston, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C through 2023.
Art at a Time Like This is a non-profit arts organization that provides platforms of free speech for contemporary artists, like Hicks. Entitled 8×5 based on the size of an average prison cell, this project seeks to take over Miami to provoke conversation around the problems and inequalities of the judicial system and to protest the state of mass incarceration in the U.S. Many of the participating artists call out very simple statistics that should shock the audience no matter what their political views are. This is the first phase of a public intervention that will move to cities across the U.S. It is ATLT’s belief that by saturating a city with signage, judges and prosecutors will be put on alert, stimulating a dialogue about justice and jail time, incarceration and discriminatory treatment, that can be a basis of change.
8X5 will feature commissioned works by leading contemporary artists: Guerrilla Girls, Shepard Fairey, Trenton Doyle Hancock and Sam Durant; plus two renowned artists who have direct experience with incarceration, Sherrill Roland and poet Faylita Hicks.
To see locations of the artworks follow this link:
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11. Laurie Anderson, Christo, Pauline Oliveros, FF Alumns, now online in The New York Times
Please visit this link:
Thank you.
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12. Doug Skinner, Norman Conquest, FF Alumns, new publication with Black Scat Books
My translation of “The Art of Noises” is now available from Black Scat
Books!
Luigi Russolo’s treatise on enriching music with noises was published in Milan in 1916. It contains his 1913 Futurist manifesto on noises, as well as his accounts of building noise instruments, his riotous concerts, his notation, and analyses of the noises of nature and technology. My translation sticks closely to Russolo’s ebullient style, and adds notes and an introduction on contemporary receptions and on Russolo’s later work. All of Russolo’s scores and instruments are lost, but his ideas have inspired generations of experimental musicians.
This marks the tenth anniversary of Black Scat Books, and editor Derek Pell (aka Norman Conquest) designed a beautiful edition for the occasion. You can find it on Amazon.
For those keeping track, this is my first Italian translation since 2002, when I translated Giovanni Battista Nazari’s alchemical dream vision “Three Dreams” for Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks in Glasgow.
My, how time flies.
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13. Eidia House, FF Alumns, at Plato’s Cave, Brooklyn, July 14 and more
Hello Colleagues and Friends, Trust all is well with you in these ‘heady’ times—we endure.
This is what is new with us,
please visit: https://www.eidia.com/platos-cave.html
And we hope to see you at the opening and book signing:
PLATO’S CAVE – EIDIA House presents
“Tom Warren: The 1980s Art Scene in New York”
BOOK SIGNING & Exhibition
Thursday July 14, 2022 at Opening Reception 5-7pm
PLATO’S CAVE – EIDIA House
14 Dunham Place
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11249
Trains: J, M. @ Marcy stop, 10 minute walk
The L train @ Bedford stop, 20 minute walk
Cheers, Onward, Best, Paul and Melissa
PS: And we finally finish our film BOB’S WORLD this month after 5 years work. We will keep you posted for screenings.
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14. Kriota Willberg, FF Alumn, summer news
Hello Everyone!
I’m writing to share news of a Graphic Medicine blog post, new mini comic, and outdoor event happening before the dreaded heat of New York City takes over in July.
Graphic Medicine Blog Post:
As many of you know, I have been the artist in residence at the Master Scholars Program in Humanistic Medicine, Grossman School of Medicine, NYU Langone since spring semester of 2020. Before my residency began, I started teaching Art and Anatomy drawing classes in NYU’s cadaver lab. It was a profound experience, so I made a mini comic about my changing relationship to cadavers illustrated with sketches I’ve been making in cadaver labs since 2004.
The mini comic is called Cadaver Diaries. I have a blogpost up on GraphicMedicine.org describing the book and sharing some images. Here is the link: https://www.graphicmedicine.org/spotlight-cadaver-diaries-a-memoir/
Warning: some of the sketches posted are of human dissections. Some people may find them disturbing.
If you are interested in purchasing the mini comic, you can do so here: https://birdcage-bottom-books.myshopify.com/products/cadaver-diari
New Minicomic: Name The Villaine by Kriota Willberg and Ambroise Paré
Name the Villaine is an excerpt from The Workes of that famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey Translated out of Latine and compared with the French by Th: Johnson in London, 1634. Ambroise Paré (1510?-1590) was known for his surgical treatments of war wounds, radically improving amputation, and writing books that would educate surgeons for about a century.
In his “Workes…” Paré gives medical instructions and includes personal stories of his experiences with patients. Name the Villaine is one of these anecdotes in which Paré’s skills can’t save his wounded patient’s life but can prolong them long enough to achieve 16th century justice.
The embroidered and drawn images in this book are inspired by the illustrations in Paré’s Workes and some other 16th century medical books by Hans von Gersdorff, Charles Estienne, Andreas Vesalius, and Bartholomeo Eustachi. The 1500s were a pretty hoppin’ century!
This story will eventually appear in Meandering Realms, an anthology edited by Filipa Estrela, but for now you can find it for purchase on the Birdcage Bottom Books website: https://birdcage-bottom-books.myshopify.com/products/name-the-villaine?variant=41544865808560
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15. Russet Lederman, FF Alumn, now online at https://behindthecamerajapan.arts.ubc.ca/
Announcing the launch of the website “Behind the Camera,” a scholarly resource for photography and photobooks by Japanese women. I contributed a lecture, and there are many that are quite good, here:
https://behindthecamerajapan.arts.ubc.ca/
Thank you.
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16. William Scarbrough, FF Alumn, now online, Untitled, Cape Town, South Africa
Please visit this link:
https://www.williamscarbrough.com/wow_docvid_2022.html
Thank you.
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17. Erica Van Horn, FF Alumn, new publication
We Still Have the Telephone
Erica Van Horn
Les Fugitives
180 pages, French reverse flaps, lilac endpapers, frontispiece
RRP£10.99 ISBN 978-1-7397783-0-9
‘In a work as personal and universal as that of her fellow American writer-artist Joe Brainard,
Van Horn focuses on the small but revealing particulars of her mother’s life; the loves,
the hates, and the obsessions. Told, as only Van Horn can, with unaffected, yet
sympathetic, candour, grace, and humour, the result is a subtle affirmation of the familial
– the personalities and relationships, the memories,
and the tensions that make all of us who and what we are.’
– Ross Hair, author of Avant-Folk
‘Gathered here are ‘details’ that are unlikely to find their way into the final draft of the obituary.
These document some of the mother’s rituals, preferences, and characteristic
way with things, including eggs, envelopes, coins, clocks, calendars,
Broadway musicals, and the United Nations.
We read these through the tender, amused, exasperated gaze of the daughter,
and the wry observational style that makes Van Horn’s writing such a delight.’
– Prof. Julie Bates, Trinity College Dublin
https://www.lesfugitives.com/new-titles/english-originals
https://www.lesfugitives.com
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18. Candace Hill-Montgomery, FF Alumn, at Art Springs Studio, East Hampton, NY, opening July 2
A PLEA FOR THE ANIMALS
Scott Bluedorn, Emily Brown, Idoline Duke, Candace Hill-Montgomery,
Christa Maiwald, Russell Munson, Elliot Shelton, Max Siebel, Barbara Thomas
Opening Saturday July 2, 2022 5-7pm
Saturday July 2-Saturday July 30
Open by appointment; call or email:
www.artspringsstudio.com or info@artspringsstudio.com
900 Springs Fireplace Road, East Hampton, NY, 917-560-3150
A Plea for the Animals is based on the book A Plea for the Animals: The Moral, Philosophical and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat All Begins with Compassion, by Buddhist philosopher Matthieu Ricard. ArtSprings Studio, founded by Barbara Thomas, is a private art space supporting art and artists through exhibitions and interactive art events, open by appointment only.
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19. Hector Canonge, FF Alumn, summer news
VOLKASSELVAN –
Within the framework of the open collaborative project Overlapping Kassel, directed by Cai Qing (GE/SG), interdisciplinary performance artist, Hector Canonge (US) will conduct a performative procession in the spirit of open collaboration at documenta 15. VOLKASSELVAN references the displacement of people, the ever-changing migratory patterns around the world, and the events that force people to find refuge in other nations outside of their own countries; as is the case of people in present-day Ukraine, Venezuela, Honduras, and Senegal.
VOLKASSELVAN follows earlier performative caravans that Canonge has conducted since 2017 exploring various themes and human concerns: the burning of the Amazon forest in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia; the disappearance of people during the dictatorial regimes in Buenos Aires, Argentina; human trafficking in Sao Paulo, Brazil; the illegal Caribbean migration in Miami, and the recent pandemic in New York City in the United States.
ASSEMBLAGE –
Through the international Network of Performance Art, INPA, Hector Canonge will conduct collaborative performative projects with artists living and working in Europe as he makes several stops during his journey through the cities of Kassel, Amsterdam, Berlin, Venice, Dublin and Reykjavik. ASSEMBLAGE is an open gathering using the body as instrument for coming together to express the challenges we face globally.
ASSEMBLAGE invites artists and interested audiences to come together and forge creatively new ways to reconnect and interact through somatic practice and performative ideas and situations that relate to the local environments where the project will be conducted.
More info:
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