Performance: History/Ritual/Identity
Summer 2022 Community Art Project with Artist-in-Residence Lani Asunción
July 6 - August 24 at Cultural Equity Incubator
Final Showcase: August 19, 6-9PM at Cultural Equity Incubator
“Performance: History/Ritual/Identity” is a Community Art Project with Artist-in-Residence Lani Asunción exploring performance art, place-based histories, ritual, storytelling, identity, and community.
Over the course of eight in-person sessions, participants worked to define identity through research on the history of specific sites and the embodiment of ritual through performance. Through the lens of racial, economical, and liberating consciousness, the group worked to 1) investigate how performance is connected to history and the exploration of identity, and 2) create a deeper sense of place in acknowledgment of the past, present, and where each performer finds themselves and their collective communities.
In the end, the group collaborated on a performance that would acclimate the work developed throughout the course, aiming to find points of connection and community healing. From research on Boston histories and experiments with movement, voice, and sound, each participant developed their own performative actions. Wearing custom-made garments inspired by early maps of Boston ward divisions, the group presented their final collective performance on Friday, August 19, 6-9PM, followed by a Q&A.