Mobius Artists Group welcomes you to an evening of performance art and participatory projects involving movement, play, language, light, and music, all responding to this place and time in American history. Returning to Boston City Hall for a second year in a row, Mobius continues to feel the weight of the precarious political climate that many in our nation are experiencing. Sometimes it feels like all we can do is Recalibrate continuously–adjust ourselves each day to the endlessly emerging risks within our country and toward our civil liberties.
As a collective, Mobius recognizes that work does not happen individually. Let us come together, hold hands, and remember that navigating the tightrope of a shifting democracy has always required conversation, collaboration, and perhaps most importantly, curiosity. How else can we envision the future of our society?
Recalibrate was made possible by the City of Boston Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture, supported by ILLUMINUS, and includes the work of 13 Mobius members and 4 invited collaborators:
Participating Mobius Artists:
Marilyn Arsem, Margaret Bellafiore, Sandy Huckleberry, Jeff Huckleberry, Sara June, Serena Gabriels, Jimena Bermejo, El Putnam, Heather/Hey There Kapplow, Kledia Spiro, Forbes Graham, Keith Becker, Yolanda He Yang
Collaborators:
Lemuel Marc, Hidemi Akaiwa, sair goetz, Genesis Pimentel
Other Place imagines an abolitionist movement that is active all around us, smuggling people who need safe passage to safety.
I'm encompassing both the negative connotations of an "other place": a sense floating around in our current political climate that there are "others" who belong "somewhere else" and a kind of a better, alternative world hidden or embedded within the "real" or "regular" one.
I'm also thinking about all the folks I know who feel afraid to leave their homes right now because of racial profiling and/or their citizenship status. And about the quality of the labor of accompanying and escorting to/from one place to another right now. About the cooperation and trust and hope involved.
Other Place is both the title of the piece and the name of a specific micro-world I'll be creating at city hall. It's a hidden place and not everyone who comes to the event is meant to find it. I'll choose and guide some people there myself, others will notice sound or visual or text cues and find it. But most people will look for it and not find it. Or never even look for it...
Light food and beverage will be provided by American Provisions, courtesy of the Mayor's Office of Arts & Culture.
Register for free at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/recalibrate-tickets-1984233687373