keyon gaskin interview

Fri, Mar 22, 7 pm
Sat, Mar 23, 7 pm
Sun, Mar 24, 7 pm

Capacity: 73

This performance will take place off-site at Oxbow in Georgetown, located at 6118 12th Ave S. Seattle, WA 98108.

Performed by a rotating cast of local artists including:
David
Karen Nelson
Vivian Phillips
Fox Whitney
Markeith Wiley

full moon in Taurus: of the body, for the body reading as the invisible act i “do” in my head but always is embodied or else i could not hold a book the book as a dance, as a set of steps and gestures that my fingertips can hold: i page, i palm, i point—i touch my mouth (this is the book too) then close myself, shelve it away. like the dance, it is no more and it can never be again. ephemeral. which i know i should find comforting but which is, instead, for me, disconcerting. out of concert. i did not agree to this. like so many things. the body, an object—I object, I say no…there is a blood mystery and although I can be weighed, measured, prodded, counted, discounted— the Thing is,
I is also a dance a set of steps, gestures, a make-you-feel and then I’m over.

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About the Artist gaskin prefers not to contextualize their work with their credentials.

[lavender]: a self portrait is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund Project co-commissioned by PICA in partnership with On the Boards, Amercian Realness, and NPN. The Creation Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information visit www.npnweb.org.