This Is My Body. With Guest Curator Quinn Dukes IN PERSON!!!
Q&A after the screening
August 19th, 2022
8:30pm Doors
9:00pm (not punk time) screening.
@The Art Park lawn
1930 35th Street
DENVER, CO 80216
FREE - We got a grant to pay the artists and curator for this program.
If you wish to Donate money to CM (accepted and appreciated) those funds will go to future CM projects and general sustaining of the project.
About Quinn Dukes: Quinn Dukes is a multimedia performance artist, activist, and curator based in Minneapolis, MN. In 2022, Dukes was appointed Fair Director of SATELLITE ART SHOW (Miami/NYC/SXSW) following a 6-year tenure as the fair’s Performance Curator. Dukes launched “Alive At Satellite” - a non-stop performance and video program that has featured over 200 live performances, screenings, and panel discussions since its inception. She prioritizes experiential, multimedia projects that propel political, social, and environmental activism.
Dukes founded Performance is Alive in 2014 as a digital and curatorial platform focused on live art, aiming to support the performance community while offering an access point to the performance curious. Dukes additionally serves on the Board of Directors for Grace Exhibition Space (NYC) and has lectured at the Queens Museum (NYC), Art in Odd Places (NYC), the College Art Association (Chicago) and the School of Visual Arts (NYC).
Curator’s Statement: A presentation of artists that boldly demand body autonomy through performative action.
Title: The Sign (6 min 5 sec)
Artist: Chun Hua Catherine Dong
Statement: “The Sign” is a 60 minute performance that explores the visual culture of shame in relation to the body, subjects, and power in contemporary performance art. In this work, eight female performers are tied together with a rope. They wear masks and repeat some symbolic gestures.
Origin: Canada
Title: Ain’t I A Woman?
Artist: GOODW.Y.N.
Statement: Ain’t I a Woman (?/!), honoring the stories of invisibilized women on whose backs the women’s suffrage movement was built, and who dedicated their lives to the struggle for the freedom and inclusion denied them.
Origin: USA
Title: Bad Woman
Artist: Katya Grokhovsky
Statement: Bad Woman is a concept of a persona, based on politics of defiance and protest to the prescribed societal idea of femininity, domesticity and the male gaze, through investigation of the vulnerable, the unstable, the emotional, hysterical and the failing body by employing combinations of sculpture, costume, found objects, video and performance, attempting to discredit the oppressive patriarchal construct of contemporary womanhood.
Origin: USA/Ukraine
Title: C.U.N.T.R.I.E.S
Artist: Tone Haldrup Lorenzen
Statement: Three women from three c.u.n.t.r.i.e.s – Iran, Denmark and USA have dressed as their national stereotype, and with mouth full they chew on the experience of their first seksual encounter. Each video has been filmed in the represented country.
Origin: Germany/Denmark
Title: The Pelvic Theatre Presents the History of Hysteria
Artist: Alison Pirie
Statement: The Pelvic Theatre Presents the History of Hysteria tells the 4,000-year history of Hysteria as a female malady, traveling through the annals of medical lore.
Origin: USA
Title: I need a place to escape
Artist: Natacha Voliakovsky
Statement: Nacho is a masculine identity that I’ve been developing for a year. During isolation, I found this identity to be a space of abstraction in a context of crisis, in which there is no physical or mental place to escape to. Conceiving a place of escape constitutes an act of dignity related to a personal reconstruction and a new way of living in a context of hostility.
Origin: Argentina
Title: State Control
Artist: Natacha Voliakovsky
Statement: State Control is a performance created to expose the biopolitical regimes of regulation of our bodies in which we find ourselves immersed, making visible how our survival is in the hands of the decisions of the states.
In recent years, the right to abortion in the US has been weakened by an increasingly restrictive panorama with hostile laws in several states, making access to this right difficult or almost impossible in many cases. This performance exhibits the governmental control suffered by those of us who are more fragile and claims with an upright body and a message written in blood, under the silent cry -For the state to remain out our bodies!
Origin: Argentina