MA(S)KING HER with Honey Pot Performance
MA(S)KING HER
with Honey Pot Performance
Tickets: $15/$12 members.
Register by phone at 414-446-8794.
We are planning four performances in conjunction with Fo Wilson's exhibition, Eliza's Peculiar Cabinet of Curiosities. This third performance features Honey Pot Performance, presenting their latest production, Ma(s)king Her. Ma(s)king Her is an AfroSurrealist dance theater work centered on women of color as empowered future beings, countering a real life narrative where their presence is more often subjugated to silence and/or invisibility. The creative collaborative developed the work over a year using a unique, community-driven process that involved public workshops to craft a story reflective of the community’s creative input. Using participatory art techniques, the four main heroines and their back stories emerged. The story follows journey women Wonder, Peppa, Isis, and Althea through their quests, visions, challenges, and crossings to realize their destinies as powerful, self-aware change agents.
The performance lasts approximately 75 minutes and involves walking to several locations.
About Honey Pot Performance
Honey Pot Performance is a creative Afro-diasporic feminist collaborative committed to documenting and interrogating fringe subjectivities amidst the pressures of contemporary global life.
Honey Pot Performance enlists modes of creative expressivity to examine the nuances of human relationships including the ways we negotiate identity, belonging and difference in our lives and cultural memberships. Dismantling the vestiges of oppressive social relationships is part of the work. Through critical performance, public humanities programming, and deep community engagement, we emphasize everyday ways of valuing the human.
Following in the footsteps of cultural workers such as Zora Neale Hurston, Beryl McBurnie, Pearl Primus and Katherine Dunham, Honey Pot Performance forefronts African diasporic performance traditions. We draw upon a central notion found in performance studies, Black feminist discourse and sociology: non-Western, everyday popular and/or folk forms of cultural performance are valuable sites of knowledge production and cultural capital for subjectivities that often exist outside of mainstream communities.
Full biographies of HPP members here: http://honeypotperformance.com/bios/
About the Project
Eliza's Peculiar Cabinet of Curiosities is a collaboration with the Chipstone Foundation and is made possible through the generous support of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, Columbia College Chicago, and the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.
