The Glass Eye (revisited)
A performance by Hot Hands Collective: Kiowa Hammons & Daonne Huff with special guest Steven Bartashev
The performance will be preceded with films by Aaron Turner
April 16th, 2018 at 8pm
Tickets: $15
The Glass Eye is a multi-disciplinary performance piece for voice, music, and film concerning the disembodiment of the black body through police violence and acts of protest to combat it—witnessed through the camera eye. The work was originally performed in 2016; at the height of protest against seemingly endless incidents of documented police brutality against African Americans. The Glass Eye (revisited) reconsiders and re-contextualizes the previous work two years later: amidst continual abuses and unjust incarceration by law enforcement; the propagation of white nationalism and islamophobia; and discrimination against immigrants. In opposition to this cultural plight, the piece further examines how acts of protest and civil disobedience continues to serve as a voice of dissent and a call for change. And as with the original piece, The Glass Eye (revisited) explores how these dichotomies are being addressed within our media saturated cultural environment--in which the camera plays the role of the ever-present witness and a tool of manipulation for an authoritarian justice system.
About Hot Hands:
Hot Hands is the performance art moniker of Kiowa Hammons and Daonne Huff. Our multi-disciplinary pieces infuse electro-acoustic music, personal narratives, re-appropriated lyrics, object theater, dance, and film to address leitmotifs of social critique and identity politics. Our works have included interpretations of the oral histories of African American Navy Yard workers during World War II, the ramifications of the camera eye in cases of police brutality toward minority groups, and the effects of gentrification upon communities.
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A performance by Hot Hands Collective: Kiowa Hammons & Daonne Huff with special guest Steven Bartashev
The performance will be preceded with films by Aaron Turner
April 16th, 2018 at 8pm
Tickets: $15
The Glass Eye is a multi-disciplinary performance piece for voice, music, and film concerning the disembodiment of the black body through police violence and acts of protest to combat it—witnessed through the camera eye. The work was originally performed in 2016; at the height of protest against seemingly endless incidents of documented police brutality against African Americans. The Glass Eye (revisited) reconsiders and re-contextualizes the previous work two years later: amidst continual abuses and unjust incarceration by law enforcement; the propagation of white nationalism and islamophobia; and discrimination against immigrants. In opposition to this cultural plight, the piece further examines how acts of protest and civil disobedience continues to serve as a voice of dissent and a call for change. And as with the original piece, The Glass Eye (revisited) explores how these dichotomies are being addressed within our media saturated cultural environment--in which the camera plays the role of the ever-present witness and a tool of manipulation for an authoritarian justice system.
About Hot Hands:
Hot Hands is the performance art moniker of Kiowa Hammons and Daonne Huff. Our multi-disciplinary pieces infuse electro-acoustic music, personal narratives, re-appropriated lyrics, object theater, dance, and film to address leitmotifs of social critique and identity politics. Our works have included interpretations of the oral histories of African American Navy Yard workers during World War II, the ramifications of the camera eye in cases of police brutality toward minority groups, and the effects of gentrification upon communities.
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