I still don’t know what to call this little flying experiment, but it debuted last night at Patterns / Squirrel Haus Arts and I’ll probably be unfolding my feelings about that experience for a long time. I’m hoping to share this short movement/light/sound piece in more spaces in the coming months as it continues to grow. Thank you, thank you, thank you to @emmamarlar & @alexanderkollman for curating and performing, @if.phxtxgraphy for photo documentation and warmth, @leilaawadallah for video documentation and your moving film and expansive being, @arrugudabah for so kindly helping me hang the scrim, the other artists who were part of the event through their films, and my sweet loving friends and collaborators for sharing your energy and presence with me/us in body and spirit and bearing witness. Thanks to @bethmikelellsworth for these two photos, captured of me moving slowly and casting big wobbly shadows behind my handknit mesh textile. Today I’m majorly sore and fatigued but also feeling stretched in mind-body-heart in a pleasurable way. All of it at once. // #FlyingExperiment #ExperimentalMovement #EmbodimentPoetics #QueerDisabledArtists #NonbinaryArtists #ArtistsWithEDS
Tonight tonight! Patterns Interdisciplinary Showcase happens at 7pm at Squirrel Haus Arts in Minneapolis. Event info is up at the link in my profile. If you didn’t get a pre-sale ticket, never fear—individual tickets are $12 at the door and we’ll also have beverages and apple cake inside. Thank you for supporting local artists! Come in and get warm with performances by @emmamarlar and @alexanderkollman and me, plus screenings of four short films, including a new one by @leilawa.aa // 1-minute video is two clips from an embodiment experiment I’ve been working on about illness and flying. I move slowly behind a large mesh textile, backlit so that my shadow and those of my cane and walker are cast on the fabric. A sound score of my voice talking about flying and unsteadiness and groundedness plays in the background, with light sound effects and instrumentation. // #NewWork #WorkInProgress #MultidisciplinaryArtist #QueerPoets #DisabilityPoetics #EmbodimentExperiments #EmbodimentIsAnExperiment #MovementExploration #ArtistsWithEDS
Don’t miss the Patterns: Endless Amber Interdisciplinary Showcase on Monday night (11/25) at Squirrel Haus Arts! 7pm, tickets at the link in my bio. Here are a few video stills from the experimental piece I’ll be performing live: using my mobility aids, a web of sound and speech, and my large handknit textile, I explore sensations and possibilities around flight and disabled embodiment. Images are four video stills of me moving behind a backlit textile, casting shadows of my body, my cane, and my walker onto its surface. // #NewWork #WorkInProgress #EmbodimentExperiments #EmbodimentIsAnExperiment #AmIABirdYet #MultidisciplinaryPoet #DisabilityPoetics #Performance #BabeWithAMobilityAid #QueerArtists #NonbinaryArtists #ArtistsWithEDS
Six Variations on A Poet Holding Their First Book, Glamor Shots edition // Got to celebrate a big milestone with @roygbiv5403 today! (And by celebrate, I mean we cried over the gorgeous galley of Roy’s first book together on my couch, after which Roy responded to emails while I napped on a heating pad—that’s #Friendship ). We already knew this, but CATRACHOS is so beautiful, y’all. Go preorder your copy from @graywolfpress now, arriving spring 2020. Eternally grateful for you, friend 💙 How lucky the world will be to have your book in it. // Image is a photo collage of six portraits of Roy, photobooth style, holding the galley of their first book and making a range of faces from surprised to serious to overjoyed. // #RoyGGuzmán #QueerPoets #HonduranPoets #MinneapolisPoets #FirstBooks #ChosenFamily #PoetFriendships #Queerodactyl #RestoredMuralForOrlando #CatrachosBook
NEXT PERFORMANCE 11/25 // Twin Cities friends, if you’re free next Monday evening at 7 pm, please join me, @emmamarlar and other wonderful artists working across media for Patterns: Endless Amber—an interdisciplinary art showcase debuting at Squirrel Haus in Minneapolis. I’ll be reading from A BONY FRAMEWORK and sharing some experimental new work. Doors open at 7 pm, and you can buy tickets at the top menu option when you click the linktr.ee in my Instagram bio. // From the organizers: “The evening's main event is the movement and sound piece "Endless Amber," a collaborative work by Emma Marlar and Alexander Kollman. Featured guest and poet is D. Allen who will be reciting from their collection. To conclude the event we will be screening a series of short films selected from a batch of submitted works. Each of these pre-sale tickets admits (2) persons and can be redeemed for (2) slices of complimentary apple cake (..a seriously yummy incentive). Doors will open at 7PM!” // Film portrait of me on Hasselblad by @eccentricearthling during our collaboration in early October. About the image: In early October I had the pleasure of collaborating with Lior Allay / @eccentricearthling —light magician and multitalented artist—as part of their ongoing portrait series. On that sunny crisp blue-sky morning I installed my 8’x8’ handknit textile in a catalpa tree near the Lake Harriet rose garden and we played with the morning light and tree shadows as I moved behind and in front of the textile that breathed in the wind. Lior travels regularly and is looking for more participants in this ongoing portrait series—visit liorallay.com to see more of their work and get in touch. // #MinneapolisArtists #Performance #MinneapolisEvents #QueerArtists #TransArtists #QueerDisabledAndPowerful #ABonyFrameworkForTheTangibleUniverse #InterdisciplinaryArtists #MultidisciplinaryPoetics #EmbodimentPoetics #MovementExperiments #Queer
