Performance for Video and Film
That which is guide toward her unweathering
Grounded in experimental performance and theatrical jazz, That Which is Guide Toward Her Unweathering is a performance triptych for camera. The devising process was grounded in sensorial autoethnography to investigate the ancestral healing pathways through gendered and racial harm manifest through microaggressions. The original iteration of this film was on display as part of a site-specific performance installation.
ReBirthing Womb Water: An Improvizational Jazz Ritual for AfroDescendants
An audiovisual collage of an improvisational composition in process, structure, and crafting, ReBirthing Womb Waters: An Improvisational Jazz Ritual for Afro-Descendants creates, recreates, and reclaims the narrative of the mysterious ecstasy waters of the feminine body that only appear within the sensuous and intimate.
As Audrey Lorde links the erotic with notions of sprit and activism, ReBirthing centers the sacred moments of retreat to the power of the inner-sensing self, as moments of healing, providence, and preparation for activating agency through resistance. This work reimagines our Afro-Indigenous technology futures as praxis for embodying identity while navigating landscapes of modernity and pop culture. Incorporating myth making, auto-ethnography, rhythmic entrainment science, Taoist theory, originally sourced sound material, along with improvisational movement and song, this digital sound and performance installation is a call and response, a space to engage with the work from the interior as sustenance. It is an invitation to participate in exploring personal understandings of the liberation of the feminine waters of ecstasy and the lessons of the sensuous waters as they surface and circulate in the contemporary, through the world building of the knowledge systems that rooted our ancestors through their travels.
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This work was commissioned by BDAC’s Jupiter Performance Studio black/water is a project of BDAC’s Jupiter Performance Studio. http://www.bettysdaughterarts.com
Immaterial Heirlooms
Immaterial Heirlooms
Immaterial Heirlooms was created in collaboration with HOMEROOM and MAKE Literary Productions as part of Exquisite Crawl, a virtual crawl featuring exquisite corpse videos from Chicago-based writers, musicians, and interdisciplinary artists/performers. Through this virtual crawl across three online venues, audiences will witness the unveiling of three distinct exquisite corpse video pieces—each created by a group of three artists and beginning with the same line of poetry from Nate Marshall’s “Imagine”
we imagine
being together & that is the first step.
Using the well-known exquisite-corpse drawing method as the format, each of nine participants created a short, multimedia video, resulting in three final group videos, each one streamed through a different venue successively.
Immaterial Heirlooms is a meditation on embodied memory as it transfers across bodies and ancestral memory. Shot in Montgomery, Alabama, with my son and father, this work incorporates oral history from, familial folk practice of hambone, along with improvised movement and text.
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