Wild Project and The Current Sessions present
Volume VII: On Resistance
Friday - Sunday, August 18 - 20, 2017

Today’s shared purpose, resistance, is at once urgent and varied. Volume VII will present work by nine artists, each developing their own choreographies of resistance using strategies of conflict, transgression, and care. On Resistance represents a spectrum of movement which challenges systems of control by reconfiguring the body into a medium for opposition.
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RESCUE
Friday, August 18, 2017 at 8pm
Disruption is an act of rebuilding the self.

Elena Rose Light // Phantasia
Resistance viewed within the hyper-regulated body, where minuscule actions can become powerful acts of resistance.

Gregory King & Megan Young // Cloud of Whiteness
World building is not as easy as constructing brick-by-brick.

Raha Behnam // Immigration II
Challenging the colonial gaze with moment that disrupts the passive witness.
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REFUSE
Saturday, August 19, 2017 at 8pm
Group effort—in which we find a place together amid spaces of opposition.

Jonathan Gonzalez
Escape is exactly the distance between a dirt bike and the will to leave.

NIC Kay // Get Well Soon!
A loose meditation on the often used wish of recovery.

Samantha CC // Sanctuary
A multi-media performance speaking to technology's ability to both restrain and liberate.
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RESTRICT
Sunday, August 20, 2017 at 7pm
An unlikely setting for the soon-to-be displaced.

Dalel Bacre // arteNÓMADA // No Dancing Today
The conjunctural, accidental, and unexpected coexist, opening an experiential space where scenic acts play the lead.

Dorian Nuskind-Oder & Simon Grenier-Poirier // Speed Glue
Two table tennis players defy the game’s competitive structure to find new rhythmic and choreographic possibilities.

Tina Wang & Tingying Ma // Studies #4
Qi-gong seen through the ordinary body. A negotiated transcript of power through self-cultivation.

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Volume VII: On Resistance is curated by Alexis Convento, and is made possible in part with public funds from Creative Engagement, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Discounts available for artists, students, seniors + East Village residents.

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Image: artist Dalel Bacre.