Spring 2024 Artists-In-Residence
Each season, SLIPPAGE Lab offers dedicated research and rehearsal space, technical support and project advisment to artists and researchers in our Evanston space.
JULIA ELIZABETH NEAL
September-May 2024
Presenting Thursday, May 23 | 1:00 PM
julia elizabeth neal specializes in modern and contemporary art of the United States, with an emphasis on African American art production. Her research considers relations between the visual, conceptual, sonic, and kinetic, to emergent politics of identity and (trans)nationalism since World War II. She is currently exploring art as a discursive phenomena in service of, refusal against, and ambivalence towards, nationhood and its social and cultural dimensions. Her interests in disguised and disregarded forms of power also consider console gaming and constituent cultures of role-playing that enables gamers to run and model abstractions of individual and world affairs. neal’s scholarship invests in archival study, critical historiography, deconstruction, critical race theory, feminisms and Black studies.
her book in progress is on the intermedia art praxis of Benjamin Patterson, which extends from her dissertation, “Who Taught You to Think (Like That)”: Benjamin Patterson’s Conceptual Aesthetic (2022). Her research is supported by the College of Fine Arts at The University of Texas at Austin, the German-American Fulbright Commission, the Getty Research Institute, the Terra Foundation for American Art and Spelman College.
THE INVITATION SITUATION
Feb. 17-24 with performances at Links Hall at 7pm Friday, Feb. 23, and 7 pm Saturday, Feb. 24
Alpert award winning choreographer Jeanine Durning comes together with a group of stellar woman dance artists and thinkers for the making of The Invitation Situation, a choreo-performance experiment based on Durning’s signature movement practice, nonstopping. Following a basic desire to “practice together,” Jeanine was invited by Andee Scott, Mary Williford-Shade, Heidi Brewer, and Clare Croft in the midst of 2021 pandemic lock downs to share her practice over Zoom which then soon developed into the desire to create a performance together. Building on the initial invitation, as well as the situation of being in 3 different states and 2 countries, The InvitationSituation highlights the labor and intelligence of the dancer’s enduring desire to move and build something together. Teetering at the edge of what could be in an ever-shifting environment, this choreography exposes both the precision and precarity of the dancer’s decision-making from moment to moment, somewhere between personal agency and collective will – grappling with time, place, and makeshift meanings.
JIMMY JOYNER
March 18-22, 2024
Jimmy Joyner is an Atlanta-based dancer, teacher, creator and supporter of fellow artists.
Joyner is interested in the intrinsic healing quality of performance.
Joyner is also a 200-hour certified yoga instructor; a distinguished fellow of Hambidge Center for Arts and Sciences, Rabun Gap, Georgia; the wardrobe supervisor for staibDANCE in Atlanta; a 2020 MINT Studio Artist; a co-founder of Nashville Design House; and a team member with Fly on a Wall, a platform for innovative performance that supports artists working in the realm of performance. Joyner has danced with Nashville Ballet, Wonderbound glo, and staibDANCE.
Joyner’s work encompasses movement, process as performance, creature creation and world-building.
KEYIERRA COLLINS
February-April 2024
Keyierra Collins is an international dancer, choreographer, and teaching artist based in Chicago. In 2020 she was awarded the 3Arts/Walder Foundation Awardee grant. She graduated from Columbia College Chicago in 2016 with a BA in Dance. There she studied various dance forms, including West African, modern, jazz, ballet, hip-hop, and improvisation. As a dance artist Collins has worked with artists like educator and international performer and choreographer Onye Ozuzu and France-based Rwandan artist, Dorothee Munyaneza. She also has had the pleasure of working with many Chicago-based artists like Paige Cunningham, Emily Stein, Anna Martine Whitehead, and Sonita Surratt, to name a few. Collins’s work lies at the intersection of exploring dance as healing and unpacking the collective and individual trauma experienced by people of the African Diaspora. Her process is kinesthetically driven and often inspired by conversations between friends and abstract thoughts or feelings related to socio-political issues. Having toured and worked with artists in Haiti, Nigeria, and France, Collins is compelled to continue to travel working with artists around the world, and make spaces for her community.
AL EVANGELISTA
April 2024
SHOWING: April 30, 7PM
places
with special guest, Sophie Minouche Allen
An interdisciplinary multimodal experiment that pairs movement with diasporic history. The project proposes and analyzes choreographic practices to consider questions of connection and care. It is also a project that considers loss not solely a site of reclamation but also one of potential. In resisting a romanticization of loss, places presents the realities of diaspora in which moving from, towards, away, slowly, confusingly is inevitable but not impossible.
Al Evangelista is an Assistant Professor of Dance and Comparative American Studies at Oberlin College with an affiliation in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Communicating Science at Virginia Tech, and a passionate advocate for interdisciplinary collaboration. He recently organized a Dancing Lab residency at the National Center for Choreography Akron to bring together queer Filipinx-American choreographers across the nation and was generously supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, Daring Dances, and an Oberlin College Teaching Grant.
Al’s scholarship and artistic work engage with social justice, technology, and performance studies, particularly in expressing queer and Filipinx-American narratives.
He has created work and performed at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Links Hall, American Theatre Company, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, University of Chicago, Virginia Tech, Dance Exchange, Chicago Opera Theatre, the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, the Inconvenience, among many others.
recent projects that will be developed @ slippage:
DEIRDRE MOLLOY
April 22 – May 21, 2024
PhD student Deirdre Molloy joins SLIPPAGE until 21 May, 2024. Deirdre uses dance ethnography and design to explore Black Atlantic identity. Her iterative research website is designed to platform dance culture-bearer voices: decodenoir.org
Join us on May 21 at 4:30PM in the SLIPPAGE Lab for her research presentation:
Black Atlantic Space-Time (preview)
Can the Black Atlantic use rhythmic heritage across space-time to find unity? This presentation will preview an interactive map of Black Atlantic rhythms as intangible heritage – visualised through Molloy’s theory of “rhythm codes”.
Work-in-progress to be presented includes rationale, design, and audio/visual map content: performances by dance duo Unity and rhythm culture-bearers from Africa and the Americas. By visually uniting diaspora dance dialogue across space-time and language regions, the map will make ancestral, living knowledge more accessible – Afrocentric epistemologies emerge. Production is supported by Code Your Future UK and Gerador Portugal, for exhibition in September 2024.
About Dierdre:
Deirdre practices mainly Blues, Jazz, Dancehall and West African dances socially. On this visit to the USA she also danced with Lindy Hop, DC Hand Dance, DC Bop, and street dance communities. In 2022, Deirdre Molloy affiliated with CIPHER ERC and won the Danijela Memorial Award for interdisciplinary innovation at University College Cork.
Under the artistic name Unity, Deirdre is a 2023-24 finalist for the Project Manifest art award. She is creating film, music and performance collaborations for the Project Manifest exhibition in Nantes, 2024.
https://www.projectmanifest.eu
