Artist Talk: Maria Bauman

Name: Artist Talk: Maria Bauman
Start: 2024-07-18T17:30:00-04:00
Location: 24 Second Street, Athens, NY, United States, New York 12015

Schedule

Thu Jul 18 2024 at 05:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

24 Second Street, Athens, NY, United States, New York 12015 | Athens, NY

Please join us at the Athens Cultural Center for an artist talk with Brooklyn, NY-based Bessie-Award winning dance artist and community organizer Maria Bauman. For part of the talk, she will be joined in discussion by Elena Mosley who stewards Operation Unite New York and who is a committed community advocate, organizer and artist in Hudson, NY. This discussion between a local practitioner and an artist based in NYC is not to be missed! And the art talk includes YOU! Maria will lead a bit of low-stakes and accessible practice responding to specific sites and environments to create movement. We’re excited that Maria will lead attendees through a bit of her process; no experience is needed and you can do this from your seat, so no need to be shy!
Among other topics, Maria will discuss her newest artwork, These Are The Bodies That Have Not Borne. The work is a multi-faceted outdoor ritual performance directed by Maria Bauman and enacted by nine Black, majority queer and transgender creatives to reimagine, heal and celebrate our wombs and the places where our wombs might be. Informed by land art, choreography, movement scores and ritual, the piece is a reckoning and a healing portal, a monument to those of us who are unresolved around not having children through our bodies. These Are The Bodies... will premiere in Summer 2025, at Feathertail Farm, in Hudson, NY.
Doors: 5:30pm
Talk: 6pm