Sis! White Male!

Thu Nov 04 2021 at 07:30 pm to Sat Nov 06 2021 at 09:00 pm

The Center at West Park | New York

The Center at West Park
Publisher/HostThe Center at West Park
Sis! White Male!
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Inspired by the works of conceptual artist Adrian Piper, Sis, White Male! is a site-specific, crowd-sourced, devised immersive experience
About this Event

An homage to Adrian Piper and her The Mythic Being, Village Voice Ads (1973-1975) and Vanilla Nightmares which investigate how Eurocentric views of Black Bodies cross the border of admiration to exploitation, Sis! White Male! is a quick and dirty crowd-sourced artistic investigation about how the endurance of the cisgender white male gaze has expounded through the 21st century.

First, the creative team gathers oral histories and artifacts (cultural data) collected from WOC colleagues, collaborators, and calls for inspiration via social media. Second, work is devised through development rehearsals with the creative team. Both virtually and in a site-specific production, the final reflections are presented through a series of performance vignettes.

Sis! White Male! is directed and choreographed by Louis DeVaughn Nelson and is presented as part of The Center at West Park's ​Fall 2021 Season. This program is made possible by the New York City Artist Corps.

COVID-19 SAFETY GUIDELINES

Per New York City's vaccine mandate, all attendees must show proof of a COVID-19 vaccine in order to be admitted to the event. Attendees are required to wear face masks throughout the performance.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

LOUIS DEVAUGHN NELSON (He/Him) is a Queer, Black interdisciplinary artist and the founder Hokum Arts started in 2006. Nelson has worked for 20 years as a performer, choreographer, producer, and director for film, theater, dance, and more. His works have been shown in the USA, Europe, Australia, and South Korea. He has studied at DeSales University, Drexel University, The New School, The Jeanne Ruddy School of Dance, The Koresh School of Dance, and is a proud member of The Dramatists Guild of America.

Intimate partner violence, racism, sexuality, discrimination, bigotry, misogyny, and the marginalization of class and social systems are frequent topics of Nelson's film and dance theater work. His most notable pieces were included in his three-part dance-theatre series satirizing sociopolitical warfare and sensationalism in the media in America entitled Human Error (2007), Man Bites Dog (2010), and Until Proven Guilty (2018). In all of these works, he used innovative methods combining several media/disciplines - collaborating with photographers, filmmakers, fine artists, and performing artists.

From 2019 – 2020, Nelson segued into directing theatre for festivals, including Dear Ms. Kitt at The Broadway Bound Theatre Festival, and several short plays for The Village Playwrights. He started the artist residency #4ColorsNYC at Sitting Shotgun Theatre which examines racial identity in America and began having his monologues selected for performance series at theatres nationwide. His piece Outer Inner Monologue is included in 8:46 Fresh Perspectives, a collection of Black monologues published by New World Theatre.

Since the pandemic – he has directed six theatre/dance productions for Zoom, YouTube, and Twitch with an aim to push the envelope in this time of burgeoning new media, and is currently contributing to theatre companies working in new forms like Teatro Milagro and Ignition Arts.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Center at West Park, 165 West 86th Street, New York, United States

Tickets

USD 20.00

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