November 30 - January 11, 2025
From Ivester Contemporary:
““Unbecoming” is a collaborative performance that explores themes of decomposition and transformation through other-worldly encounter. In the piece, performers activate a centuries-old storytelling device known as a “moving panorama” or “crankie.” The device was popularized in the 19th century as a means of transporting audiences to distant places. Here the crankie transports us to an underworld, both a refuge and painful transitional space, where a figure sheds societal expectations and finds the relationships necessary to survive above ground. The performance is a reflection on the interplay of safety and visibility as well as the more-than-human linkages that sustain us in uncertain times.
This event is produced by Leah Danze is a painter, psychotherapist, and art therapist whose creative practice responds to attempts at “ordering” nature and society. Their paintings become animated entities that extend beyond the canvas and into their surroundings, illuminating the role of interdependence and play in subverting rigid frameworks. Their work is multidisciplinary and collaborative, intertwining art with community building.
Leah has shown their work at Apna Ghar, a Chicago-based organization working to end gender violence; at queer community gathering space Lil Deb’s Oasis in Hudson, NY; at the Aquarium Gallery in New Orleans, LA; at MASS Gallery in Austin, TX; and at the Aupini Space in Honolulu, HI. They have collaborated with artists from La Universidad de Antioquia in Medellín, Colombia and have shown their work at Printed Matter with Tropic Zine. Additionally, Leah has hosted therapeutic group art making workshops at libraries, hospitals, senior centers, VA clinics, parks, and schools across the country.”
Performance: January 11, 2025 | 6–7 pm
916 Springdale Rd Bldg 2, Suite 107 Austin, TX 78702
Austin, 78702 Texas
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