Heavy Breathing presents "How to Explain Belief: A Trans Boxing
Workshop"
Part 1: Performance LECTURE (open to all)
2-3pm
Part 2: Boxing Workshop (exclusively for trans & gender variant
people)
3-4pm, register [https://form.jotform.com/200096000057137] here.
*Both events are free.
How to Explain Belief is the title of a 2-part event led by artist and
Trans Boxing founder, Nola Hanson. Through a performance-lecture and
workshop, Nola will use boxing as a framework to explore ritual,
community, performance, and embodiment. By activating the gallery
space as the training location, Nola constructs a hybridized site that
recontextualizes the physical activities that occur within it.
WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND THE
PERFORMANCE-LECTURE. After the performance-LECTURE, people who are not
participating in the WORKSHOP WILL BE ASKED TO LEAVE THE SPACE. There
will be no audience for the WORKSHOP: only primary participants and
the facilitator (Nola Hanson) The BOXING WORKSHOP IS EXCLUSIVELY FOR
TRANS AND GENDER VARIANT PEOPLE. Participants are asked to wear
comfortable clothing/footwear that is appropriate for exercise.
Register for WORKSHOP AT https://form.jotform.com/200096000057137
[https://form.jotform.com/200096000057137?fbclid=IwAR0U8ahAn-pyY7vRxfsCwZzsBPF5t3gcXqoFTLY3iMuLapFZRkvCVvL3xlE].
Diego Rivera Gallery at SFAI
800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco
Free + All are Welcome to the lecture component.
Wheelchair accessible. Ramp located at Chestnut Street entrance.
BIO:
Nola Hanson (b. 1991, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a trans artist whose
practice centers the role of embodiment in contemporary social
systems. Nola received their BFA in Painting and Art Criticism from
the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2014. They started boxing at
the New Bed Stuy Boxing Center, a community-run boxing gym in Bed
Stuy, Brooklyn in 2015. In 2017 they founded Trans Boxing, an
experimental boxing club that prioritizes participants of various
identities who have limited access to boxing training.
Nola's practice includes independent work as well as collaborative
socially engaged projects, and has been shown in New York, Chicago,
Portland, and Milwaukee. Nola is currently an MFA candidate in the Art
and Social Practice program at Portland State University.
Influential Texts / Recommended Reading:
John Dewey, Art as Experience, Chapter 1: The Live Creature
Pablo Helguera, Education for Socially Engaged Art, Chapter 2:
Community
Gordon Hall, Extremely Precise Objects of Ambiguous Use
Allan Kaprow, Performing Life (1979) Right Living (1987)
Adrian Piper, Notes on Funk, I-II//1985/83
Image credit: Image: Drill Meditations, Nola Hanson and Nicky S.
Smith, On Air Fest, Brooklyn, NY, 2018.
More info: www.heavyheavybreathing.com
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