Get ready to feel FREEDOM ALONGSIDE GUND CURATORIAL FELLOW LATANYA S.
Autry as she leads a discussion and disco dance workshop in the
exhibition Temporary Spaces of Joy and FREEDOM. “What FREEDOM MIGHT
BE LIKE” will consider how various Indigenous and Black people have
defined FREEDOM AND USED DANCE AS BOTH CODED POLITICAL RESISTANCE AND
CELEBRATION OF LIFE.
Through acknowledging how enslaved people and Native Americans’
devised Juba and Ghost Dance traditions, respectively, as subversive
and community building modes, the program will explore Michi Saagiig
Nishnaabeg artist and scholar Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s
meditation on the power of performance in creating FREEDOM.
Autry will also work with Red Carpet by Vaimoana Niumeitolu and Kyle
Goen, in order to—as Simpson urges—get the feeling of FREEDOM IN
OUR BONES.
The title for this program, “What Freedom Might Be Like,” was
gleaned from a 2018 conversation between Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
and Dionne Brand.
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