This community-driven collection was conceived in New York City as the COVID-19 pandemic had both arrived and driven the city to its closure in March, 2020. By the time of its first anniversary, independent artists rallied and organized to share their truths, advocate & uplift one another, and share visions for a sustainable, equitable balance in the cultural sector, all while global social solidarity movements call for land-back, fights for social, professional, and economic equity.
These interviews began first as an act of advocacy for freelance workers, with intention to document creative practices and the embodied experiences that informs them.
Narratives for the purpose of this work concerns makers of performance, visual, and social practice works, including community advocacy, building, and organizing.
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Angeline Butler
New York, NYC, USA
2020, 29 November
// coming soon
- Excerpt: The sixty-eight acre farm
- Encore Session: Lift Every Voice: Racism, Power, and Activism in the Arts: A Conversation with Angeline Butler
Elizaveta P. Buzytsky
Brooklyn, NYC, USA
2021, 19 August
// coming soon
Lazarus Nazario
Bronx, NYC, USA
2020, 23 Oct
The boogie-down, these days // Cop-Out // Zero / Fuck Cop-Out // Pintura Acrillica // Underground Black Market Devotional Propaganda // Columbus, disgusting - “Why would you do that?”
Mx. Sugar Mamasota
Brooklyn, NYC, USA
2020, 1 Oct
Sugar, from the South // All my Mama’s gonna hear is “Devil-worshipping stripper!” // On stage, gender assignments, Grotesque Burlesque, and Apparently a Clown Slut // Early-on // Stripping away layers & being close - where burlesque is for me these days // Knitting, Ancestors, Grandma's beads // Double-dutch in the Rockaways // Ancestral jewelry, I'm not stuck here
Sara Meghdari
Brooklyn, NYC, USA
2020, 2 Oct
Lately - In the studio - When we met // Silent Self // Performance for the camera - the rousari, feeling of nostalgia, history, independence // Family // NYC, 3rd Space, Experiments // Something I would have like to have heard when I was younger