Screwball (work-in-progress showing)
About this Event
Maria Silk | Activation Stage Programs | PLEASE. STAY. TOUCH. Jess Curtis Experiments with Gravity
The exhibition PLEASE. STAY. TOUCH. Jess Curtis Experiments with Gravity includes an Activation Stage led by artists-in-residence whom Curtis mentored. Each artist serves as curator-facilitator-performers for events, performances, and happenings that engage deeply with Curtis’s legacy and archive. Each artist presents a program that also extends Curtis’s commitment to inclusive, innovative performance practice and embodied presence.
Maria Silk performs a work-in-progress version of her new solo Screwball. Inspired by the 1973 text The Screwball Asses by Christian Maurel (originally published anonymously as Les culs énergumènes), the piece explores the relationship of sexuality and desire to systems of domination.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Maria Silk (b. 1993) is an artist based in San Francisco. Centered on performance, her practice examines themes of collectivity and friction within queer and trans life as well as received narratives around queer history and identity. A 2017 danceWEB Scholar at ImPulsTanz, Silk has shown work locally and internationally at the Berkeley Art Museum, the Cantor Center for the Arts, CounterPulse, Slash, Southern Exposure, Fierce! Festival (Birmingham, UK), and Improspekcije (Zagreb, Croatia). She is known as a very good sport.
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