We continue riding the waves — of covid, of our creativity, and of our capacity — respecting limits while also, defying them. But the time has finally come. The performance of Placeholder takes place tomorrow, Saturday, November 14th at 3pm EST (10pm in Cyprus). I will be alone (well, with one steadfast friend!) in a black box theater, livestreamed from…
Placeholder Logo Ways of Knowing In her book Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer recounts her story of gathering degrees all the way to a doctorate in Botany, only to realize how far away that journey led her from embracing the inherited wisdom she already had as an indigenous woman. Until she attended a small gathering of Native elders who were…
Perhaps it is no mistake… …that the researcher/artist contemplating the topic of displacement has always been unsettled and uncomfortable with the idea of home. Of course, the irony is not lost on me now that my “home” has never been truly threatened. While my mother and I were often domestic refugees, and more than once we fled in the middle…