SCENICچشمی
SYNCHRONICITIES
Observing and studying non-human practices of home and migration in celestial, submarine, plant modes—such as spiders, hummingbirds, monarch butterflies, and the remote networks of winds, fires, waters, soils, distant trees, mushrooms, and whales—can enhance our body technologies and help choreograph harmonic social movements.
Similarly, studying the patterns of celestial objects such as Sun and Moon allows us to understand their impact on our bodies through gravity and light. By combining these insights with experiences of telepresence, telephonic, telepathic, and secluded contact across inmultilocational and multilingual rehearsals of poetry, performance, and pedagogy, we cultivate long-term synergy, a sense of neighboring, and empathy.
FORGOTTEN
NETWORKS TV
FIRE LOUNGE COLLECTION
For Naomi Long Madgett
A collection of remedial sceneries for healing self, land, and senses of belonging, curated by Ava Ansari.
“OPENNING AFFIRMATION”
“THE WINTER STORY” SACRAMENTO KNOXX
“WEAK (LOVE is!)” WILL SEE+A.W.E. SOCIETY
“THEY WILL CARRY US” HALIMA CASSELLS+AVA ANSARI+RAFAEL LEAFAR+ NIA+NZINGA
“AJNABI” ARSHIA HAQ
“THE GAZE” SHAHRAM AHMADZADEH
“THE BOOK OF KHALID”
“GAROD (the feeling of separation)” LEVON KAFAFIAN
“I CAME TO GO TO THE MOON” BOTEHJ + BORDERLINE KNOWLEDGE
“THE WAY HOME” SHIGETO
“ZIDE” NOVA ZAII
“HELLO” TABRIAN ZEGEER
“But My Hands Move Right Through You/ And Collide With Lively Hands Beyond” MATT BAHER
“SuNu” IMANI MA’AT
“ROCKED A ROOM” BRYCE DETROIT
“PONSETTIA” NESA+NIYAZ AZADIKHAH
“SUFI DANCE” BAHAR BEHBAHANI
“HERITAGE PAKISTANI COOKING” TAZEEN AYUB
“FRESH SPRING ROLLS” MEIKO KRISHOK
“DANCE JIT!” HALEEM STRINGZ RASUL” MATT BAHER