In a world that treats Black life as if it’s disposable, The Bag
Lady is an urgent reckoning and revelation. She is the accumulation of
discarded lives and abandoned histories reeking havoc on the amnesia,
the forgetting, the erasure and the silencing. Remembering is the
responsibility of the living. Are you doing your work? Because an
unacknowledged history produces ghosts.
Performed by Taja LINDLEY AND DIRECTED BY TANISHA CHRISTIE, The Bag
Lady MANIFESTA FEATURES AN IMMERSIVE INSTALLATION OF MEMORY FOLLOWED
BY A PARTICIPATORY PERFORMANCE RITUAL WHERE AUDIENCES ARE INVITED TO
(re)consider what to let go of, and what to remember – individually
and collectively. Through dynamic movement, burlesque, text,
soundscapes, ritual and projection LINDLEY ADORNS AND ACTIVATES HER
BLACK, queer, female body with trash bags to traverse the dumping
grounds and shadow side(s) of herself, the audience and the UNITED
STATES.
This work is inspired by previous iterations of LINDLEY’s Bag Lady
work, including This Ain’t A Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering, and
was presented as the culmination of LINDLEY’s residency at Dixon
Place.
Though tickets are FREE, registration is REQUIRED as seats are
limited.
TajaLindley.com [http://tajalindley.com/]
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