All posts tagged: Marvin Tate

The Imaginary Center of Perception

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Video documentation of The Imaginary Center of Perception, a collaborative performance by Kirsten Leenaars. Performed July 21st, 6-7 pm at Gallery 400, Chicago Albeit highly mediated in TV and the Internet, artist Kirsten Leenaars responds to the witnessing of the deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, to name a few. Leenaars’ performance responds to the anger, the pain, the injustice, a flawed system and the senseless loss of lives. Through a poetic collaborative performance with spoken text – derived from the original eye witness accounts of the Michael Brown shooting – sound, and choreographed movement, this performance explores the act of witnessing today in light of such recent events in America as the deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Freddie Gray. What does it mean to be a witness today? How is the story framed? What does your testimony mean? And what or who do you see? How can being a witness move away from merely being a passive observer to a position of hope, affecting change? Performers: Marvin Tate, Matthew Robinson, …

The Imaginary Center of Perception

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Photo credit: Clare Britt Images of The Imaginary Center of Perception, a collaborative performance by Kirsten Leenaars. Performed July 21st, 6-7 pm at Gallery 400, Chicago Albeit highly mediated in TV and the Internet, artist Kirsten Leenaars responds to the witnessing of the deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, to name a few. Leenaars’ performance responds to the anger, the pain, the injustice, a flawed system and the senseless loss of lives. Through a poetic collaborative performance with spoken text – derived from the original eye witness accounts of the Michael Brown shooting – sound, and choreographed movement, this performance explores the act of witnessing today in light of such recent events in America as the deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Freddie Gray. What does it mean to be a witness today? How is the story framed? What does your testimony mean? And what or who do you see? How can being a witness move away from merely being a passive observer to a position of hope, affecting change? Performers: Marvin …

Boulevard Dreamers at the MCA

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– On January 21st, Lise Baggesen and I had the great pleasure of taking our Boulevard Dreamers Project to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and transform the museum’s atrium space to a stage and green room. – – The day’s and evening’s performances, included some new and amazing acts, such as MCA’s own Chaz Hearne on Banjo: – – Chicken Fat Klezmer Orchestra: – – And Jessica Cambell with an unforgettable rendition of Brick House: – – We also had the pleasure of welcoming back some of  our personal favorites from last time, such as spoken word social activists Rebirth: – – And off course our green lady of the green room, Anni Holm, who closed the evening with an MCA Anthem: – – Apart from the above mentioned, we would like to thank Carol Laque, Mairead Case and In the Spirit, for their amazing storytelling skills, as well as Brian Sandstrom and  The Extraordinary Popular Delusions, The Pillowhammer, Marvin Tate and Michael Soto & Madeleine Aguilar, for putting in some musical muscle …