Performances

PROCESS: re-OrientationS

SLIPPAGE Presents

re-OrientationS

SLIPPAGE has begun a multi-year project exploring queer phenomenology and the choices queers make to live our lives amid incessant technologies.

Watch the 2024 Performance

re-OrientationS @ Links Hall, Chicago

May 16-18, 2024

From the Collaborators

We re-orient because we must.

Turning our attention this way or that, we inevitably leave something behind, willy-nilly. Moving towards our destiny means leaving something back. This mixed-media|live-processing performance combines soundscaping, VR explorations, dance performance, projection mapping and storytelling to craft an immersive experience of Black thought and Black wonderment.

The quartet of artists each contribute from electronic workstations into a central area of discovery, as an audience witnesses from a three-sided periphery. How do four artists contribute to a shared making of sound, light, projection, text, dance? How will they bring their expertise near each other in an unusual assembly of technologically-enhanced revelations? The work emerges from an archive of possibilities assembled in the wild contours of the imagination set free to dream…

May 16-18, 2024 – Links Hall – Chicago

Artists: K. Alexandrite, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Ayan Felix and MX Oops

Stage Management: Dee Molloy

Lighting: Giau Truong

Scenic/Costume: Austin Winter

Video Documentation: Ella Harmon

Production Support: Pat Sangsuwan

Thank you: Matthieu Dupas

Project Collaborator:

MX Cooper / MX Oops

MX Cooper aka MX Oops is a multimedia performance artist and educator whose work centers hybridity, encouraging ecstatic disobedience as a path toward embodied wellness. Creative Director of Complex Stability, their work is NYC-based, while centering the party as a queer site of transnational Afro-diasporic imagining. MX works in a range of mediums including: dance, video design, costume, rap, and guided meditation. They are an assistant professor in the Department of Music, Multimedia, Theatre, and Dance at Lehman College, CUNY.

Listen MX’s latest sonic diary entry: In My Feelings Vol #14: Wickedest

Project Collaborator:

Kate Alexandrite

K. Alexandrite is a doctoral candidate in Computational Media, Arts and Cultures at Duke University. Alexandrite’s research is focused on practices of material transformations performed to cultivate sacred & shared social memories. Their practice takes form in collaboration, installation, collective organizing, video and collage.

re-OrientationS in process: Wirtz Center for the Arts, Northwestern University

May 6, 2022

Project Collaborator:

Ayan Felix

Ayan Felix (they/them) is a Gulf-Coast-bred movement artist, emotional laborer, and auntie-in-training residing in NC, USA. They research how Black American cultures develop understandings of gender through dance and family. Ayan performs collaboratively with improvisational styles based in modern/post-modern dance, physical theater, house, and majorette training. Although much of their time as a dancer is spent in staged works, their most urgent work is site-responsive using dreaming as a source of performance and change. They were among the first to earn an MFA in Dance through Duke Dance Program. Their current goal is to grow their own lettuce and evening-length show/happening.

Cocooned in signal we weave our loving attentions with dizzy fingers. Riding the echoes of our attempts, I see a reflection— this radical body slithers out from the weave.

Excerpt From Occulus Set

Rehearsal Footage

space expands in all directions,

and time flows in all directions.

how can we love that (our selves, each other)

which can never be fully known?

PROCESS: re-OrientationS

re-OrientationS

May 16-18, 2024

We re-orient because we must.

May 16-18, 2024 – Links Hall – Chicago

Project Collaborator:

MX Cooper / MX Oops

Project Collaborator:

Kate Alexandrite

May 6, 2022

Project Collaborator:

Ayan Felix

Cocooned in signal we weave our loving attentions with dizzy fingers. Riding the echoes of our attempts, I see a reflection— this radical body slithers out from the weave.

Excerpt From Occulus Set

Rehearsal Footage

MX OOPS

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Live-Process Performance Clips

Every Voice Contributes to a Unique & Dynamic Creative Tapestry