The Stories We Tell, the Images We Take
Screening sessions and artist talks concluded each nightly program of The Shape of a Practice, showcasing and creating windows into a variety of artistic practices. The first event presented artist Tia-Simone Gardner’s film contributions The Un-Vessel (with Anna van Voorhis) and There is something in the Water. These are followed with a performance entitled Hopium Economy by artists Beate Geissler and Oliver Sann.
There’s Something in the Water / The Un-Vessel
With Tia-Simone Gardner, Anna van Voorhis and Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski
Hopium Economy
With Beate Geissler & Oliver Sann
Moderated by Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski
Throughout the duration of The Shape of a Practice, screening sessions and artist talks concluded each nightly program, showcasing and creating windows into a variety of artistic practices. Two contributions from Mississippi. An Anthropocene River opened the series, which attempt to negotiate different research practices of archiving and enacting embodied relationships to materialities and identities: Tia-Simone Gardner’s contributions The Un-Vessel (with Anna van Voorhis) and There is something in the Water examine land, water, and its historical uses that connect humans and geography through material of place, interrogating the complex relationships between american waterways, colonialism, migration and trade. In a performance entitled Hopium Economy, artists Beate Geissler and Oliver Sann share a trenchant story of addiction that traces the lines between industry, ecology and aspiration, unfolded from the recent opium epidemic in the US.
