April 4th 6:30 pm
performance
Kat Bawden, Camille Casemier, Selena Kearney, Jesse Malmed
All Species Day, Prime Rib All Day
A collaboration between Selena Kearney and Camille Casemier
This performative essay explores the symbolic role of the raven, tracing its representation on the Fall City Totem Pole through our personal experiences shaped by our respective heritages. This exploration intersects with broader research into themes of cultural appropriation and assimilation, addressed in our works responding to the Rod Slemmons’ archive. The performance puts to use darkness, spoken text, call-and-response, gifts, and a cover of Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man.”
Chief Dan George Song
A performance by Selena Kearney and Alanna Rebbeck
A performance of the Chief Dan George song, known as the Coast Salish Anthem.
stereoscopophillia
A performance by Jesse Malmed
Pineal proprioception and clairvoyant clatter, imagining Saroyan’s “eyeye” edited for length and clarity (longer, more opaque).
Alive, A life, A light
A performance by Kat Bawden
An aging couple in the Chicago suburbs willingly give up their personal archive of family photographs to a stranger, disposing of thousands of slide film photographs of their family from the 1950s and 60s. The photographs are strange, tender, silly, mysterious, poetic, and they feel very much alive. I activate this archive into a slide-show performance to ask: why do we photograph our lives? Are photographs alive? If so, what is the lifespan of a photograph, of an archive?