Stipule​

 

In Stipule, audiences will move through a series of spatial transformations and modular objects that are stronger and more agile because of their interdependence. The evolving environments and forms will gain more strength and versatility as compositional intimacy deepens. Here the relational poetics of metamorphosis and symbiosis lead experimentations toward world-building with systems that support the growth of more livable demographies. At the center of this spatial and formal experimentation is infrastructure and the biosphere and how their indelible relationship impacts human and nonhuman spacetime. 

 

Stipule is framed by communitarian and environmental principles to examine four existential questions of ecology; engineering, conveyance, democracy, and sensoria.  

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1. Engineering, A multimedia sound and sculpture installation

2. Conveyance, SSZ, Site research trip to the Black Belt of the United States. Focusing on the region's complex history, civil rights milestones, and ecological restoration

3. Democracy: The crafting of a new Constitution 

4. Sensoria, An exploration of theoretical physics as it pertains to the precarity of democracy.  Using performance to think through breaking points of collective action in relation to intimacy and autonomy.  

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The title Stipule, a small, leaf-like appendage found at the base of a leafstalk, comes from the idea of using the past to bloom into new futures. I'm asking what needs transformation, support, augmentation, stronger infrastructure, or transformation, and how new growth can speak transhistorically?  ​

 

 

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