On Agency: A Feminist Performance Lecture
"On Agency" uses Judith Butler's “The Psychic Life of Power” as a lens to explore the family as a feminist and queer conundrum of agency, ambivalence, and complicity.
As part of the talk, I'll be showing (and embodying) a series of new works on felt.
Curated by Việt Lê & Presented by CCA's Graduate Visual and Critical Studies
Monday March 4th
5-7 PM
California College of the Arts
Blattner Multipurpose Room
75 Arkansas St.,
San Francisco, CA, 94107
No reservations required; this event is free and open to the public.
Pictured:
Reveal (2024) applique on felt, 3’ x 3’
Partial View
Partial View, new performance as part of Dancing Distributed Leadership, a project of Bridge Live Arts in collaboration with Rebecca Fitton and Cherie Hill and featuring dancers Belinda He and Rosemary Hannon.
March 22-24, Space 124, San Francisco
Details at https://www.bridgelivearts.org/event-details-registration/experiments-in-motion
Pictured: Rosemary Hannon (up) and Belinda He.
Shifting Culture Power: Case Studies and Questions in Performance
Shifting Culture Power: Case Studies and Questions in Performance
by Hope Mohr, with contributions from participants in The Bridge Project
Out now from the National Center for Choreography; Available for order on Amazon.com
"Filled with exquisite insights, Shifting Cultural Power demonstrates what we can do to transform curatorial practices toward our shared destinies. Hope Mohr explores the uneven terrain of dance presenting to take on white privilege and attest to the life-affirming rewards of artivism. Written with a smart, raw, confessional tone, this book includes practical strategies for reshaping the terms of live art presenting. Essential reading, and affirmation that how we move through the world matters, onstage and off."
- Thomas DeFrantz (Director, SLIPPAGE: Performance|Culture|Technology; Founding Director, Collegium for African Diaspora Dance)
Part documentation, part workbook, Shifting Cultural Power offers compelling insight for artist-activist leaders. Mohr reflects on her ten years at the helm of the Bridge Project and the organization's shift into distributed leadership. Originally focused on creating critical exchange within the Bay Area dance community, the Bridge Project evolved to become a home for national discourse around the performing arts and activism. Mohr describes a decade of artist-centered curation, the evolution of the operating context, and her decision to move control of the organization to distributed leadership.
Pictured above: Dancers Karla Quintero, Jane Selna, Suzette Sagisi, and Tara McArthur in “extreme lyric I.” Photo by Robbie Sweeny.