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BOFFO PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL FIRE ISLAND

Synovial Sea

mayfield brooks
8.12.2023
Details
Date:
Saturday, August 12, 2023
Time:
12:00PM—12:45PM EDT
Location:
The Beach at Fishermans Path
Fire Island Pines, NY
11782
Sea Spells takes a deep dive into the realm of interspecies intimacy and its correlation with queering kinship through friendship and non-binary matriarchal lineages. We take inspiration from Mayfield's project, Whale Fall, that explores the regenerative capacity of decomposing whales and the friendship of queer icons such as Marsha P. Johnson and Silvia Rivera. We channel ritual technologies for reenchantment and intimacy with the more than human. We explore queer friendship as a remedy and amulet. We conjure vessels and divine streams for collective grief, healing, joy, and release.

mayfield brooks is a movement based performance artist, vocalist, urban farmer, writer, and wanderer based in Lenapehoking also known as Brooklyn, New York.

They are the 2021 recipient of the Merce Cunningham Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, their dance film, Whale Fall, was nominated for a 2021 Bessie Award, and  they are a 2022-23 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University. To learn more about their work go to www.improvisingwhileblack.com