Photo by: David Matorin
Alison O’Daniel, Skater’s Score, 2019. Live performance hosted by JOAN at Lincoln Heights Skatepark, May 17 & 18, 2019.
Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz, Moving Backwards, 2019. Video Still.
Kira Nova and Ana Prvački, Facia Slapstick, Video Still, 2020. Shown as part of the live performance Facia Slapstick at JOAN, November 17, 2020.
JOAN
Fund: $45,000
JOAN will present a series of performances curated by director Summer Guthery. Beginning in the Fall of 2018, JOAN will bring together five artists for four multi-night programs. Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz will present a film installation activated with a live performance portraying a series of political, activist, and poetic speeches by different performers; Alison O’Daniel will work with a composer and six hard of hearing skateboarders to create a musical composition that utilizes skateboards and ramps as percussive instruments; Ieva Misevičiūtė and Ana Prvački will collaborate on a performance in the style of a theatrical revue that shifts between stand-up comedy, physical comedy, butoh dance, and absurd costuming in what they describe as “sexual slapstick.” Connected by a shared sense of play, the performances in this series model novel approaches to queer politics, differently-abled experience, post-industrial labor, and feminist humor while sharing a desire to create a space of open-ended creativity that engages freely with possibility and potential.
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