keyon gaskin and collaborators

Louann, AR; Camden, AR; St. Louis, MO; and Portland, OR

Collaborators:

Amenta Abioto: @yawamusic

Isaiah Spriggs: @iaspriggs

Jacque Hammond: @jacquehammond

⁠Jared Dancler: @ashidanca

Syon: @sighbaby_ | SyonDavis.com 

tbd: to be diasporic un determined

Access notes: Loud, amplified sound levels. Audio description will be provided on the Sept. 13th performance.

DESCRIPTION

“Darkening” refers to the participation of people traditionally understood as “dark” in the formation of their own identities through imagination of internal belonging and oceanic crossing. It invokes a process or sense of envelopment, if not doom, in the ubiquitous effects of power, and simultaneously a sense of hope for a future where such thick, instrumental, and infinite selections become so full as to become ineffectual—the mirrors darkened, possibility reborn.

— Stephanie Leigh Batiste, Darkening Mirrors

Reaction, memory and dream: these are the springs of poetry.
May these poems challenge the daily language of our intercourse-

— June Jordan, Introduction to 

SOULSCRIPT

ABOUT THE ARTIST

keyon gaskin prefers not to contextualize with their credentials.

SPONSORSHIP

A National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project, co-commissioned by PICA, The Luminary, The Chocolate Factory Theater, and NPN.