Aya Lana + Jess Jupiter and Lauren DiGiulio to Curate CPR's New Voices in Live Performance Series

CPR - Center for Performance Research announces the curators for its 2019 New Voices in Live Performance series: Aya Lana + Jess Jupiter and Lauren DiGiulio.

Walking With Water, June 1-2, 2019

Curated by Aya Lane + Jess Jupiter

As part of CPR's New Voices in Live Performance series, Walking With Water will be a weekend of events centering around environmental racism and justice, land sovereignty, and healing the Earth through ancestral spiritual practices. These themes will be explored through live performance, workshops, and multimedia installations.

Aya Lane is a multidisciplinary storyteller and architect of black futures. They organize #gayhikes- hikes for the black & brown queer community to raise awareness about the environment and facilitate healing inherited trauma rooted in oppression on land. In March, they completed their fellowship with Superhero Clubhouse, where they developed Drexciya, a mythical resistance story exploring black and indigenous communities relationship to water in the height of international water crisis.

Jess Jupiter is a producer of all trades: visual, audio, and performance. Jess currently works as producer on a number of podcast shows, including The Stoop, a podcast that shares stories from across the black diaspora. Jess' work centers around stories regarding identity in the queer communities. She is currently working on an audio project titled, Black Bodies Are, that explores the stories of black folks and the ways they exist and thrive in their bodies.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Saturday, June 1

12-2:30pm: Visual Installation by Shanee Shante ; Capoeira workshop and performance by Capoeira Mu urumim; and (Re)membering, performance and workshop by Kiana Parsons & Onyx Engobor

Sunday, June 2nd

1-2pm: (Re)mnants, an interactive digital media installation and performance by Monique Dodd; Lost Kingdoms by Imani Dennison; and Water Sound Bath by Adrian Martinez

2-4pm: Workshop led by Ayesha Guerin

(Re)Patterning Performance, June 7-9, 2019

Curated by Lauren DiGiulio

(Re)Patterning Performance will bring together artists, curators, and scholars to explore how language can be retooled by the performing body to create new ways of thinking about who can speak, and how. In a series of talks and performances, we will think through the myriad ways that the body as been patterned socially, culturally, historically, and geographically as a way of constricting the expression of subjective difference, and investigate methods by which the body can be re-patterned to open out into a network of exchange among cultural communities, modes of self, and the ecological environment.

Lauren DiGiulio is an art historian and dramaturg whose scholarship focuses on contemporary visual art and performance. As a longtime affiliate of Robert Wilson's Watermill Center, she has worked with Christopher Knowles as Dramaturg and Associate Artistic Producer of The Sundance Kid is Beautiful with Christopher Knowles, and contributed program notes for Robert Wilson and Philip Glass's 2012- 2015 tour of Einstein on the Beach. Recently, she contributed an essay to the exhibition catalogue for Christopher Knowles: In a Word, organized by the Institute of Contemporary Arts at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a PhD Candidate in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester, where she has taught in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies and Art History.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Friday, June 7th

6:30pm: Keynote Address by H ng- n Tr ng, Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies in Studio Art, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Saturday, June 8th

3-5pm: Lecture demonstrations and panel with Ilya Vidrin, Media, Literary, and Visualization Fellow, Harvard University; Greta Hartenstein, former Senior Curatorial Assistant at the Whitney Museum; and Leon Hilton, Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, Brown University.

6:30pm: Performance by Christopher Knowles, Recent Poems

7-8pm: Reception, with DJ session by Christopher Knowles

Sunday, June 9th

2-4pm: Readings and Panel with Leila Nadir, Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities, Environmental Humanities Program Director, University of Rochester; Lakshmi Padmanabhan, Junior Fellow, Dartmouth Society of Fellows; Candace Williams, Poet

5-6pm: Performance by Kristine Haruna Lee and Jen Goma, plural(love)