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
A performative essay involving spoken text, recitation, image and song, responding to our works and one another, considering our respective heritages and research in topics of assimilation and appropriation brought up in Rod Slemmons’ photo archive.
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?