A Proposition by Rodney McMillian: 13 unrelated ideas
New Museum, 235 Bowery
Friday: 7pm lecture by Rodney McMillian
Saturday: 3pm Performance by Rodney McMillian, Tracie D. Morris, and Chicava HoneyChild
How does performance function in each of the vignettes presented (Bobby Womack, Jada Fire, Samuel R. Delaney, Nina Simone, Michael Jackson, Aliens, Funkadelic...)? How do we understand subjectivity or personae in terms of abstraction? How do we understand subjectivity from within the performances? Are these really the questions? Or is it about physicality, images, sound, historical perspectives and the insistence of a need to utter that's being presented or represented? Alternatives to other forms of political, cultural or domestic powers? A freedom? A possibility that film, photography, material, and performance are a form of time travel? A possibility, like in Samuel R. Delaney’s science fiction novel Dhalgren, whereby potential and repetition are actions?
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