GET WELL SOON! FUND ( NIC KAY )
Donation protected
With your support, I will be able to sustainably develop and share drafts of my new project
GET WELL SOON! in the next eight months.
GWS is a project / meditation based on a loose and often used phrase indicating a hope of recovery. But if “Hope is a Discipline.” as Mariame Kaba writes, What are a the methods of hope in a performance practice?
Can resistance be choreographed?
GET WELL SOON! is a cultural trope that is deeply embedded in the neoliberal cultural political economy. Why must we be #carefree and #joyfilled ? Who does this abrupt shift from #blacklivesmatter and #sayhername conversations truly benefit, in a culture of speedy recovery and self help as the state cuts/destroys affordable healthcare.
What is wellness - living with, despite and barely in the constant of Black death and trauma?
GET WELL SOON! they say... HOW I ask?
GWS is an interruption, a memorial, a wake, and a meditation on reparations.
What does black diasporic collective healing look, feel, sound like?
What are the historical examples of this longing?
I am interested in the creation of non-survival narratives.
And I am exploring the symbolism and functions of flags/banners in relation to modernity/personhood/rights/communication and the nation state.
THE $15,000 FUNDRAISING GOAL COVERS:
Assistance with New York City Housing / Travel
Travel / Accommodations expenses in Chicago to attend scheduled performances
Accountant ( tax/budget assistance )
Lawyers for Artist consultation
Storage
A fund to pay designers ( sound, costume, graphic, and lighting )
A fund to pay performers
Lighting Kit
Panasonic LUMIX G 14mm lens
Hi-res image printing
Sewing Machine
UPCOMING (WORKS IN PROCESS) SHOWINGS:
April + June - Movement Research (New York)
April - ACRE Projects (Chicago)
June - The Petty Biennial (Chicago)
BIO + ARTIST STATEMENT
Currently occupying several liminal spaces.
I am a person who makes performances and creates/organizes performative spaces.
I am a mover.
I am deeply invested in and often obsessed with the act and process of moving, the change of place, production of space, position, and the clarity/meaning gleaned from shifting of perspective.
My practice is rooted in harnessing the power of movement as a mode of reclamation - of the body, story, identity, and truth. I am a trans disciplinary artist whose work choreographically weaves together performance, video, installation, and object-making.
My works are located within a history of Black, Trans, Radical, Queer communities who have and continue to do/make art as a mode of understanding, celebration and survival. I am drawn to notion of the body as an archive and/or a vessel for ancestral memory.
Whether on stage or collecting found objects in urban-landscapes or excavating archives for missing links, these gestures become a force to construct new and alternate realities.
REWARDS
(When you donate..)
Get Well Soon! pin + Updates + my gratitude.
THANK YOU!
FOR MORE INFORMATION FOLLOW ME @okaynickay or VISIT nic-kay.com/upcoming
GET WELL SOON! in the next eight months.
GWS is a project / meditation based on a loose and often used phrase indicating a hope of recovery. But if “Hope is a Discipline.” as Mariame Kaba writes, What are a the methods of hope in a performance practice?
Can resistance be choreographed?
GET WELL SOON! is a cultural trope that is deeply embedded in the neoliberal cultural political economy. Why must we be #carefree and #joyfilled ? Who does this abrupt shift from #blacklivesmatter and #sayhername conversations truly benefit, in a culture of speedy recovery and self help as the state cuts/destroys affordable healthcare.
What is wellness - living with, despite and barely in the constant of Black death and trauma?
GET WELL SOON! they say... HOW I ask? GWS is an interruption, a memorial, a wake, and a meditation on reparations.
What does black diasporic collective healing look, feel, sound like?
What are the historical examples of this longing?
I am interested in the creation of non-survival narratives.
And I am exploring the symbolism and functions of flags/banners in relation to modernity/personhood/rights/communication and the nation state.
THE $15,000 FUNDRAISING GOAL COVERS:Assistance with New York City Housing / Travel
Travel / Accommodations expenses in Chicago to attend scheduled performances
Accountant ( tax/budget assistance )
Lawyers for Artist consultation
Storage
A fund to pay designers ( sound, costume, graphic, and lighting )
A fund to pay performers
Lighting Kit
Panasonic LUMIX G 14mm lens
Hi-res image printing
Sewing Machine
UPCOMING (WORKS IN PROCESS) SHOWINGS:April + June - Movement Research (New York)
April - ACRE Projects (Chicago)
June - The Petty Biennial (Chicago)
BIO + ARTIST STATEMENT
Currently occupying several liminal spaces.
I am a person who makes performances and creates/organizes performative spaces.
I am a mover.
I am deeply invested in and often obsessed with the act and process of moving, the change of place, production of space, position, and the clarity/meaning gleaned from shifting of perspective.
My practice is rooted in harnessing the power of movement as a mode of reclamation - of the body, story, identity, and truth. I am a trans disciplinary artist whose work choreographically weaves together performance, video, installation, and object-making.
My works are located within a history of Black, Trans, Radical, Queer communities who have and continue to do/make art as a mode of understanding, celebration and survival. I am drawn to notion of the body as an archive and/or a vessel for ancestral memory.
Whether on stage or collecting found objects in urban-landscapes or excavating archives for missing links, these gestures become a force to construct new and alternate realities.
REWARDS (When you donate..)
Get Well Soon! pin + Updates + my gratitude.
THANK YOU!
FOR MORE INFORMATION FOLLOW ME @okaynickay or VISIT nic-kay.com/upcoming
Organizer
Nic Kay
Organizer
Jamaica, NY