UPLIFT! Faith Restoration Vision Keepers // A performance by Nic Kay + Friends
UPLIFT! Faith Restoration Vision Keepers
A performance by Nic Kay + Friends
Sunday, April 9th
3-4pm
Tenochtitlan Plaza
Blue Island + Loomis + 18th
UPLIFT! Faith Restoration Vision Keepers is a playful exercise, as a part of the work in process, Get Well Soon!
GWS is a project/meditation based on a loose and often used phrase indicating a hope of recovery. But if “Hope is a Discipline.” as Mariam Kaba writes, What are the methods of hope in a performance practice?
Can resistance be choreographed?
GET WELL SOON! is a cultural trope that is deeply embedded in the neoliberal cultural political economy. Why must we be #carefree and #joyfilled? Who does this abrupt shift from #blacklivesmatter and #sayhername conservations truly benefit, in a culture of speedy recovery and self-help as the state cuts/destroys affordable healthcare?
GWS is an interruption, a memorial, a wake, and a meditation on reparations.
Artist Bio:
New York-based artist Nic Kay makes performances and organizes performative spaces. They are obsessed with the act and process of moving a place, production of space, position, and the clarity/meaning gleaned from a shifting of perspective. NIC’s current trans-disciplinary projects explore movement as a place of reclamation for the body, history, and spirituality. NIC has shown work, spoken on panels and hosted workshops at numerous venues throughout the United States and abroad. In 2016 they developed a web series called the Bronx Cunt Tour around their debut solo performance, lil BLK for Open TV, which premiered in April 2016. NIC Kay is currently a 2017 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence Van Lier Fellow in New York City.
Activate! is an initiative, in partnership with Latent Design and the City of Chicago, to transform underutilized public plazas into cultural and economic catalysts.
Our alumni are incredible artists, making incredible work!
Please check out and consider supporting these upcoming projects by past resident artists, Nic Kay and Sadie Woods
Nic Kay, 2015 Resident
Can resistance be choreographed? Get Well Soon is a project/meditation based on a loose and often used phrase indicating a hope of recovery. But if “Hope is a Discipline.” as Mariam Kaba writes, What are the methods of hope in a performance practice?
Support this project: https://www.gofundme.com/GETWELLSOONFUND
Sadie Woods, 2016 Resident
A Study in Rhyme & Song is a mobile exhibition project with accompanying performance elements that draws upon research about sound-system culture, minstrel songs, and vaudeville traditions.
Support this project: http://3arts.org/projects/study-rhyme-song/