Saturday, June 8, 2024
TIME: 2pm
LOCATION: BLACK HOLE HOLLOW (MAP)
TICKETS: Sliding scale $10-$30 (All are welcome. Purchasing tickets in advance is appreciated but not required. 10% of proceeds will be donated to the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association.)
ARTIST: Levi Gonzalez
As part of another audience, Levi Gonzalez and collaborator Kayvon Pourazar will present fragments of the current work-in-progress Further. The work engages with site through half-factual, half-fictional narratives, vocal utterances, and movement explorations in multiple environments. These practices are intended to activate the audience’s awareness of their own bodies in relation to the space we are collectively inhabiting. Additionally, text and sound serve to point towards the often invisibilized realities of our shared location and also the potential of using the imagination to expand the possibilities of our relationship to place.
In an informal showing we will share our research on some of these ideas specifically in relation to the structures and landscape of black hole hollow in an effort to learn what the land and space can teach our practice. Any and all are welcome to attend and share in this research in progress.
About the artist
2024 Another Audience Artist Levi Gonzalez is a dance artist originally from Los Angeles, who was based in New York City from 1998-2016. He collaborates regularly with luciana achugar, and has performed extensively with Donna Uchizono Company, John Jasperse Company, Juliette Mapp, ChameckiLerner, Daria Faïn, and Michael Laub’s Remote Control Productions in Europe, among others. He was a founding editor of Critical Correspondence, an online publication of Movement Research, from 2006 to 2009. He served as Artistic Advisor for New York Live Art’s Fresh Tracks Residency Program from 2006 to 2014, and from 2012 to 2016 was the Director of Artist Programs for Movement Research. His choreographic work has been commissioned and presented extensively in New York City as well as nationally and internationally. He was a 2003-2004 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, received a New York Foundation for the Arts Choreography Fellowship in 2006, and was a 2012-2014 Brooklyn Arts Exchange Artist-in-Residence. He is the recipient of numerous national residencies, and has participated in multiple artistic exchange projects in Eastern Europe, engaging with artists, writers, scholars and arts advocates throughout the region. He received his MFA in Dance from UCLA in June of 2019, and joined the dance faculty of Bennington College in Fall 2020.
Gonzalez’s current work involves subtly subverting the constructs of performance by highlighting the porous boundaries between audience and performer and investigating the queer corporeal logic of bodies as a sensual and radical means of re-organizing information and experience, and resisting normative definitions of body and desire.
Accessibility
We encourage anyone interested in coming who may need accessibility support to reach out in advance to hello@blackholehollow.org or call (917)499-9030. We encourage participants to bring a support person to accompany them as we navigate different terrain.
Parking
Parking is available about 20 feet from the main entrance to Black Hole Hollow. There is a gravel road with a slight downward incline from the parking area to the main entrance. If this is not accessible for your needs, guests can also park in the main driveway, which is closer to the gathering space.
While we have the intention to expand our capacity to support expanded accessibility, we apologize that at this time we are not able to offer ASL support and do not have ADA compliant spaces. We are open to any conversations that might ensure your ability to participate.
COVID Protocol:
This event will take place outdoors. In the interest of supporting those with compromised immune systems we will enforce COVID protocol such as mask wearing depending on COVID levels at the time of the event.
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