Jessica Emmanuel presents ‘kwirē/, a new solo, multimedia dance work that “considers a dystopian world where the majority of historical and ancestral information has been destroyed.”
The wealthy have left the planet and few humans survived. A dance and sound retrieval system has been created to help us restore our connection to our memories and the history that is stored in our DNA. Guided by Emmanuel’s ancestors, she gathers and collects information, nurtures the soil and roots that are used to restore the earth for those left behind.*
Filmed on the REDCAT stage and available to watch this week online, the work takes place in a sculptural installation created in collaboration between Emmanuel and Trulee Hall.
From top: Jessica Emmanuel, ‘kwirē/; Emmanuel in Reflections of the Vastness Within at TheChronicles of LA: Chapter 2:Self, 2018; Emmanuel in Trilogy: Witnessing Her + Decolonize That Mind + Proliferation of Joy, Teatr Studio, Warsaw, 2018; Emmanuel in Poor Dog Group, Dionysia (aka Satyr Atlas), Getty Villa, 2011.
I don’t really look for inspiration. I just let it come to me, but I don’t stop working. Work comes from work. When I’m stuck I just keep working and make terrible looking things until something else comes out of it. That’s the creative process… You can’t think yourself out a right action. You have to act yourself into right thinking. You can’t sit there and smoke cigarettes and look at the wall waiting for inspiration. — Marilyn Minter
NASTY WOMEN—a celebratory group exhibition at Gavlak Los Angeles—”seeks to uplift communities underrepresented in contemporary art and American visual culture at large… [giving] a platform to a diverse array of perspectives and female voices throughout art history.”*
The show is dedicated to the memory of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. See link below for details.
SUPERCALIFORNIAGILISTICEXPIALIBODCIOUS is a group show of “mostly large paintings, displayed salon style” at Human Resources, Los Angeles.
Artists included in the exhibition are: Asher Hartman, BenWhite, Christine Wang, Devon Tsuno, Guan Rong, Iris Yirei Hu, Jemima Wyman, John Bertel, Katie Herzog (with AndrewChoate), Kristin Calabrese, Sarita Dougherty, and Trulee Hall.
SUPERCALIFORNIAGILISTICEXPIALIBODCIOUS, through September 10.
HUMAN RESOURCES, 410 Cottage Home Street, Chinatown, Los Angeles.
* humanresourcesla.com
Katie Herzog, Periodic Table of Elements, 2008. Courtesy of the artist and Klowden Mann.
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