MOCO'24 9th International Conference on Movement and Computing
May
30
to Jun 2

MOCO'24 9th International Conference on Movement and Computing

Livable Futures contributing artists, Bhumi Patel, Laura Rodriguez | LROD, and Norah Zuniga Shaw will be presenting a performative workshop at MOCO24 (Movement and Computing Conference) in the Netherlands.

This will be in person and they are also planning a future online version to invite folks in our larger international community into the work!

Livable Futures Workshop: The Unarrivable Horizon  

As the tectonic forces of xenophobia, technodeterminism, orientalism, homophobia, and transphobia collide with climate catastrophe, we are left dancing on unstable ground. This Livable Futures workshop supports exploration of questions at the heart of present conditions, questions about futures, livability, instability, and connection. Three interdisciplinary artists Bhumi B Patel, LROD, and Norah Zuniga Shaw, invoke these questions through co-facilitated, intermedia improvisational movement practices, reflection, and dialogue.

Through movement, sound, and active reflection, we ask together: What is a future? What are livable futures? How can we be in community and connection while creating these livable futures? How do we find and create resilience even as we fight the forces requiring it of us? In what ways can the physical intelligence of dancers be better mobilized to support grounded flexibility and dynamic stability during times of rapid technological and planetary change, inequity, and irreversible loss? Expanding upon the platform of the Livable Futures project, this workshop mobilizes creative solutions for survival under planetary conditions of unpredictability and crisis. Together, we create from a space of engagement with Donna Haraway’s call to “stay with the trouble” and invent “tentacular practices,” to engage with “life lived along lines — and such a wealth of lines — not at points, not in spheres” (Haraway 2016) as a means to continue to develop futurism-oriented movement practices.

We will move and make sound together in an inclusive format open to anyone.

BIOS:

Norah Zuniga Shaw is an interdisciplinary artist and director for performance and technology projects that integrate body, ecology, collaboration, and liberation and Artistic Director for Livable Futures.

LROD, is a longtime contributing artist to Livable Futures and a recognized choreographic Director, Creative, and Producer from El Paso, TX. The company LROD began 2014 continues to perform across the US, Canada, and MX. LROD received an MFA from The Ohio State University in Dance and Intermedia with a Minor in Latinx Studies. LROD received a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts in the Professional Dancers Program. LROD’s designs, communal form, and post-colonial scaffolding for potential futures in art, performance, technology, and dance are sewn here. 

Bhumi B Patel is a queer, desi, science-fiction movement artist and writer. She directs pateldanceworks and is a PhD candidate at Ohio State University. She has presented her choreographic work in the Bay Area, Manoa (Hawai’i), Los Angeles, New York, and Columbus (Ohio). Patel was a 2022-2023 Dance/USA Fellow and a 2023 YBCA 100 Honoree. Bhumi’s research on queer decoloniality and improvisation intersects with her performance-making as a way of tracing the deep connections of past, present, future to build communities of nourishment and care. She is a contributing artist and scholar in our Livable Futures community since 2022.

Workshop

When: Friday May 31, 2024 | 3-4:30pm

Where: University of Utrecht

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Climate Gathering: Transmedia Performance Rituals for Livable Futures
May
18
2:00 PM14:00

Climate Gathering: Transmedia Performance Rituals for Livable Futures

Livable Futures’ artistic director and co-founder, Norah Zuniga Shaw will be presenting at the European Forum for the Study of Religion and the Environment in Potsdam, Germany.

In this short performative lecture and photo essay, Norah will facilitate a ritual Climate Gathering. Drawing on resources from the Livable Futures project and our transmedia performance rituals Climate Gathering (2019) and Climate Banshee (2022), this talk offers an evocative opportunity to arrive into the moment, turn toward and soften into the magnitude of the issues at hand, and locate our own capacities, resources, and intentions, both individually and as a collective.

 

A social practice artwork, Livable Futures cultivates creative responses to unpredictability and crisis on a planet in need. Livability instead of sustainability emphasizes social justice and an ecological ethics recentering who survives and who gets to thrive in our communities—human, biological, and artificial. Resisting dominant narratives of apocalypse, the projects of Livable Futures foster intention and support participants finding ways into action and intention. The tactics we offer come directly from the intrinsic practices of artists and make the leap of assuming that art matters and that creativity is a serious and meaningful response to crisis. 

When: 2pm Saturday May 18, 2024

https://www.religion-environment.com/about-the-forum/

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Final Showcase of YANA: An Andean Journey into Darkness, Immersive Performance by Ati Cachimuel and Collaborators
Apr
23
4:00 PM16:00

Final Showcase of YANA: An Andean Journey into Darkness, Immersive Performance by Ati Cachimuel and Collaborators

YANA: An Andean Journey into Darkness, Immersive Performance by Ati Cachimuel and Collaborators

YANA (darkness) is a musical piece written by Kichwa Otavalo composer Ati Cachimuel. This piece reflects, from a sonorous perspective, the musical tradition from the Andes which combines everyday sounds and noises. The use of traditional instruments such as wind instruments made from bamboo reeds and ceramic pre-Columbian instruments interface with programmers to experiment with the creation of a new form of conceiving of Andean music. 

YANA is based on a mythic being that exists in Kichwa culture as the foundation for the narrative thread behind the musical creation. This mythic being is present in the most important festivity for Andean populations—the Inti Raymi—as the spirit in charge of balancing the energies of this world. 

As a musical proposal, YANA involves two primary contributors: an Andean musician (panpipes, wind instruments, pre-Columbian instruments, and synthesizer) and a programmer (MAX/MSP). The use of this instrumental format aims to create frequencies that generate regenerative and healing sensations, similar to those felt during the Inti Raymi celebration. Beyond this, working in collaboration with ACCAD, the goal is to expand YANA into a multidisciplinary and sensorial piece that includes visual projections, dance, and olfactory stimulation. 

Where: Tuesday, 4/23, 4:00-6:00 PM | Sullivant Hall, Rm 350 (Motion Lab)

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Mar
2
6:00 PM18:00

Composting Dreams: A Dance Party!

Artists CAZIMI, HARRY LURKER, and TRASHBB host a Rec Room Dance Party Tonight!!

When: Saturday March 2nd, 6PM – 11PM!

Where: Sherman Studio Art Center, Columbus 1055 Carmack Road.

 

Livable Futures graduate student fellow, Zaza and friends is hosting a dance party you don’t want to miss. Zaza writes:

Do you have any dreams that are becoming burdensome, or leaving you with a nagging feeling that they might be inseparable from the harm and suffering of others? Then come! And celebrate the coming dawn and consider the invitation to refuse those old pesky dreams, that got you down. Bring your trash fits and trashiest fits, your recycled looks, and upcycled flair! Come and say no more to business as usual, UNLESS that business is You and I and Us on the dance floor together putting in the work.

Image credit; what are you willing to let go of? (2023), Elaff Houmsse & Nine Wells

 

*This event is on a dry campus, no alcohol will be served*

 

**Sherman is a 10 min walk to/from the 31 bus. Paid parking is available in carmack lots, but it’s expensive so get your carpools goin babes!**

 

This event was made possible through the support of; 

Livable Futures; The Sustainability Institute; & Speculative Eco Futures

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Jan
1
1:30 PM13:30

Livable Futures Courses

This year we will kick off the first and second cycles of the Livable Futures course at Ohio State University with students from any discipline. Here’s the course description, welcome one and all! In this creative research-based and experiential learning course, students will engage in creative inquiry at the intersection of our bodies, our technologies, and our ecologies.

Responding to the urgency of current planetary conditions, this course fosters creative solutions for survival under planetary conditions of unpredictability and crisis. Students are guided in creating individual and collaborative socially engaged research projects that are supported by faculty research. The course is supported by the resources of Livable Futures, a multi-year artistic research and public practice project co-directed by Norah Zuniga Shaw and generating creative responses to planetary crisis and uncertainty.

Livability instead of sustainability emphasizes social justice and an ecological ethics re-centering who survives and who gets to thrive in our communities—human, biological, and artificial.

Spring 2023

This cycle of the Livable Futures learning community and creative laboratory will bring students into conversation with local and international activists and artists through local field study (attending exhibitions and performances together, meeting with artists, site visits) and engage resources in the Livable Futures Podcast and Idea Archive.

We will center Black and Indigenous artists, practices and knowledge while engaging deeply with each of our personal identities and intersectional positionality in society. We will use the tools at hand to create our own forms of disruption and activism through artistic intervention and invitation.

This is a research-based studio exploration, beyond our shared texts and groundwork together, students will be guided in determine individual or collaborative research threads.

Learning through Research 

Research-based teaching is emergent. We ask questions together and discover possibilities by engaging in various methods of creative inquiry. In addition to reading, listening, discussing, watching, journaling and writing (!!) other activities will be research driven and therefore will emerge as our shared and individual research interests emerge.

Learning through events involves preparing prior to an event, attending, engaging with the artists when possible and documenting or synthesizing your learning through movement, audio, video, visual traces and/or writing. 

Our shared modalities throughout the semester will be visual journals and short interpretive essays / arts criticism.

Visual journals and written interpretation both foster critical thinking skills (comprehension, application, reflection, and inquiry) employing a range of learning modalities that are documented through image and text. Audio is also an option.

Special opportunities and funding from the Ratner Award for excellence and innovation in teaching

We are teaching this class with support from the Ratner Award for teaching that I received last year. This means we have funds to support your ideas and the final exhibitions/events we determine as well as opportunities that emerge along the way. Students are encouraged to propose projects and suggest uses for funding related to the course and the larger Livable Futures initiatives throughout the semester. This is a special one time offering and a great way to have an impact. Dream big!

Learning Communities

What we are creating here is a creative research community; we’re coming together to make progress on a set of ideas that are important to each of us and to use the social support and input of a diverse community of practices to do so.

We will also use carefully devised intersectional feminist methods for supporting creating and moving ideas into the world. As a result we will also share and comprehend work and working practices in and across fields and worldviews.

This can sometimes be uncomfortable especially when it involves systems and approaches that are unfamiliar. We will engage with this discomfort when it arises with generosity and curiosity. We will all emerge from this term with a new set of tools in our toolkits as artists, citizens, scholars, and as teachers for co-creating livable futures.

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Community Movement every month!
Apr
9
5:00 PM17:00

Community Movement every month!

Move your body, mind and spirit in a guided free flowing experience.

Open to all, no experience necessary. Sign up to receive Zoom Link!

Join us the first Friday of each month for Livable Futures virtual virtual movement gatherings in collaboration with Flux+Flow.

45 minute virtual gathering

  • Starting with healing visualizations

  • Moving into full bodied movement with music

  • Closing with time to connect and absorb the nutrients of our time together

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Community Movement every month!
Mar
5
5:00 PM17:00

Community Movement every month!

Move your body, mind and spirit in a guided free flowing experience.

Open to all, no experience necessary. Sign up to receive Zoom Link!

Join us the first Friday of each month for Livable Futures virtual virtual movement gatherings in collaboration with Flux+Flow.

45 minute virtual gathering

  • Starting with healing visualizations

  • Moving into full bodied movement with music

  • Closing with time to connect and absorb the nutrients of our time together

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Emergent Strategy Reading Room
Feb
11
2:15 PM14:15

Emergent Strategy Reading Room

Join us at ACCAD to discuss Emergent Strategy, the book by Adrienne Maree Brown that serves as a galvanizing force for the Livable Futures project. Attendees are invited to share thoughts on the reading and ideas for developing Livable Futures projects. Come connect with faculty and students in the community and learn about funding opportunities.

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Into the Multiverse
Nov
10
to Nov 23

Into the Multiverse

Sonic Arts Ensemble “Into the Multiverse”

Join us in the multiverse for an evening of sonic immersion and visual poetics that respond to the moment we are in while creating portals to other places.

For this special concert, the Sonic Arts Ensemble meets in virtual space to connect from their homes in Argentina and the U.S. (Ohio, Indiana, New York, Florida).

The Honourable Elizabeth A. Baker, a New Renaissance Artist joins the Ensemble as our featured guest. She brings to the evening her idiosyncratic genius and boundary shifting approach to sound, light, and image.

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Fructify: Reclaiming the Present and Forming a Fruitful Future
May
16
6:00 PM18:00

Fructify: Reclaiming the Present and Forming a Fruitful Future

Please join us for a multidimensional collaborative event facilitated by artists Ashley Browne and Jacklyn Brickman that will be held virtually at Mozilla Hubs on May 16, 2020 from 6-8pm. 

We have been working on a collaborative installation, Fructify: Reclaiming the Present and Forming a Fruitful Future,  that we had planned to share with you at the Fuse Factory on May 16. Since we continue to be in isolation from each other, for all of our safety, we have found a way to continue our collaboration AND to share a virtual, 3D, interactive space with you all! 

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Informed by community input, the artists have built an other-worldly, multimedia virtual space that incorporates thoughts and imagery shared by several community members. 

You are invited to collaborate with us! For the event, please have ready an online link to a video, image, gif, 3D model or sound clip to share that acknowledges the past with a sentimentality that you feel should inform the future. Please make sure 3D models are .glb or send any non .glb 3D models to FructifyFuture@gmail.com by Wednesday, May 13 to the email provided below to ensure they are formatted correctly. (Links work well from youtube, sound cloud, vimeo, and google images, etc. by copying the "image location" or clicking on the item “share link” and then pasting it directly into the space)

Mozilla Hubs works similarly to zoom, in that you are able to share your mic to converse with others in the space, as well as your video (if you choose). You can navigate the space and are represented by the avatar and screen name of your choice. It’s easy, and fun and we hope you will jump right in. 

We’re so glad to have found a way to gather virtually! 

To get started, visit this link :  https://hub.link/2bHQjS7 on Saturday May 16th between 6-8 pm for our virtual art opening. Feel free to email us questions to FructifyFuture@gmail.com

Fructify is generously supported by the Livable Futures Discovery Theme and Fuse Factory.

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Virtual PARCON Resilience
Apr
10
12:00 PM12:00

Virtual PARCON Resilience

THIS IS A THREE DAY INTENSIVE
APRIL 10-12 from 12-3pm each day + supplemental affinity space breakout groups!***

Sign up on eventbrite

PARCON RESILIENCE is an anti-racist, site specific movement practice that challenges isolationism and social conformity through inclusive, cooperative, investigation or our nonverbal relationship to bodies, objects and environment.

The roots of the form were inspired by PARkour and CONtact Improvisation. As well as a desire to find resilience for all people to fully move in their bodies and psyches into brave spaces while in collective- critically thinking about reality and experimenting with utopias.

No experience is needed; but acquaintance with anti-racist theory is highly recommended - because we layer our embodied exploration onto work like this -

Heteropatriarchy and The Three Pillars of White Supremacy by Andrea Smith

Our practice is trauma-informed, and the aim for sessions is to clearly state our community agreements and hold a container for open communication & feedback from the collective.

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Orientations to Parcon Resilience and Tech Tutorials in ZOOM will happen the week before. We will contact folks who register to coordinate dates and times.

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This event is co-produced by Livable Futures, a project of Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme." and the Ohio State University department of dance.

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here is a testimony from our last Parcon Resilience in person workshop:

This was the most an extraordinary experience. There was the sense of playing a small, exploratory part together in the making of a new "language"—not only verbal and moral but, inseparably, embodied—and a new world, a piece of a huge work in progress, like a quilting bee of the future. The movement was fun, playful, searching, creative, homing our attention on the bodily location and sensation of an emotion or memory. The depth and genuineness of contact with others was what I did not expect. It was so moving.

I was changed by those two hours. As I walked home I realized I was centered not in my head, not even in my heart, but deeper, in my hara. It was a completely new feeling. I have felt centered in my hara gravitationally, but this was emotional.

- Annie Gottlieb

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Mar
28
1:30 PM13:30

Sky and Stone, Magic and Medicine

Description: In this workshop, we will work with simple ritual and meditation practices for shifting consciousness and cultivating experiences of connection and kinship with both the earth and sky. We will engage with both astrology and stones in experiential and embodied explorations. Astrology is an ancient tradition of making meaning with the vast more-than-human world through tracking the movements of the planets in the sky from our place here on earth. Stones are some of our most ancient ancestors, both the bones of the planet and the minerals within our own bodies. In these practices, we will work with meditation, simple and accessible movement explorations guided by the current astrological weather and our encounters with stones, writing, and discussion. No previous experience is necessary.

Michael will be bringing a selection of rocks, stones, and crystals with which to practice, but also strongly encourages participants to bring their own if they already have relationships with particular crystals, stones, or rocks.

Bio: Michael J. Morris moves, thinks, facilitates, and writes within and between dance, ritual, performance art, gender and sexuality studies, and somatic practices to support personal and collective healing and liberation. Their work takes the form of public rituals and community workshops, participatory performances and dances for the stage, dramaturgy, public speaking, academic teaching and writing, and collaborative art making. They also maintain a consultation practice called Co Witchcraft Offerings in which they center astrology and tarot within ritual and meditation practices to support people in processes of making meaning and healing. They are currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Denison University where they teach in the Department of Dance, Queer Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Environmental Studies.
https://www.michaeljmorris.com

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Application Deadline - This Land: A Feminist Ohio Field School
Mar
16
11:00 PM23:00

Application Deadline - This Land: A Feminist Ohio Field School

Activities: We start in Columbus by thinking about the settler logics of the land grant university on OSU’s campus, then travel to Greenville, Cincinnati, and the Wayne National Forest for hands-on learning about settler colonialism and its ongoing relation to crucial social and political issues affecting the area.

Cost: This field school includes full funding for student travel, meals, and lodging. Students can enroll in a one credit course for May term, but it is not required.

Capacity: 10 students

Possibility for student to enroll in 1 credit (not required)

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Description

Drs. Jennifer Suchland and Mary Thomas, both associate professors in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, will lead a feminist field school in Ohio in May 2020 to better understand where “we” are situated within the legacies and contemporary manifestations of settler colonialism in Ohio. This second Livable Futures Field School will take 10 undergraduate students around campus and then to Greenville, Cincinnati, and the Wayne National Forest, to consider the significance of settler colonialism for our everyday on this land and for our academic lives as feminist scholars and people in the world.  

Our learning will focus on site specific engagement to learn about and examine how the histories of contact between indigenous peoples and settlers are represented in public memorials and museums, how settler colonialism persisted through narratives of Ohio as a transit zone for escaped slaves during Antebellum times, and on how contemporary resource extraction continues the logics of settler colonial formations of land use today. 

Application Requirements

Applications to the field school should include:

  1. Application

  2. Resume/CV

  3. Personal Statement (350-500 words double spaced) that: 

    • Explains your interest in the field school.

    • Explains how your particular skills and/or expertise will benefit the larger group.

    • Explains how you think the field school relates to your personal, professional, and/or creative development.

Application Deadline: March 16, 2020

All applications should be emailed to Professor Mary Thomas (thomas.1672 [at] osu.edu) by March 16, 2020. You will receive an email notifying you that your application has been submitted. 

Timeline of Events

Week of March 9
Interviews

March 20
Notification 

March 27
Group Meeting

May 11-15
Field School


Our Ohio Field School will visit four sites over fives days, with three nights on the road:

Monday May 11 - Columbus, Ohio, OSU Archives and OSU Farm

Tuesday May 12 morning departure - Greenville, Ohio, The Greenville Treaty Line

The site of the signing of the “Treaty of Greene Ville” in 1795, which was a major turning point in the expansion of settler America, the displacement, forced removal, and death of indigenous people from the Northwest Territory, and the settling of Ohio by colonists. The treaty initiated what is called the Ohio trail of tears. 

Lodging overnight in Greenville

May 13 morning departure - Cincinnati, Ohio, The Ohio River. 

The Ohio River is significant in many ways, and Cincinnati is an important location along that river.  The Ohio River was once the border that marked the British-protected “Indian Country” (Ohio Territory) and which was undermined by the creation of the Northwest Ordinance in 1787.  With that ordinance, the pathway to statehood for Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Minnesota was created. That path both undermined indigenous claims to their land and ways of life (including water) and established the antebellum divide between slave and non-slave states. 

Lodging overnight in Cincinnati

May 14 Morning Departure - Wayne National Forest

The forest was federally created in 1934 and named after Anthony Wayne, a key figure in the American Revolution and the white settler incursion into the Northwest Territory. It is a site to consider the confluence of settler history (as with the creation of “public lands”) and contemporary battles over access and protection of land/forest, fracking, public health, and economic and racial justice. 

Lodging overnight in Athens or at state park lodge

May 15 afternoon departure for Columbus - Wayne National Forest

We will meet with someone from Keep Wayne Wild (link)

Return to Columbus by 6pm


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Latinx Movement Lab with LROD
Feb
29
6:00 PM18:00

Latinx Movement Lab with LROD

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A movement laboratory investigating joy, ritual, and freedom in contemporary Latin rhythms and forms. Latinx Movement Lab will explore horizontal and vertical weight, isolations, and hip articulations in a community-based environment of radical tenderness. No experience in Latin movement necessary to participate.

This is a donation base class, the proceed will support Flux+Flow as a space.

LROD is a Chicana from El Paso and the Tex-Mex borderlands who actively create inclusive installations, surreal dance-works, and integrates emerging technology with care. Recognized as an interdisciplinary performance artist/choreographer; LROD’s current mediums intersect dance, performance, visual art, mask making, costume design, lighting, and interactive technologies. Her movement research investigates contemporary lineages of Latinidad in dance, alter-egoism, and discovering communal environments of radical tenderness. Her films explore Latinidad in the context of borderland cultural production through the lens of surrealism, futurity, and inter-generational archives.

She brings thirty years of experience as a performer and movement practitioner and has over fifteen years of choreographic, teaching, and visual arts experience. In 2017 she received her B.F.A. from the Professional Dancers Program at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle before migrating to Columbus. Laura is currently pursuing her M.F.A. in choreographic research and technology from the Department of Dance, alongside a Graduate Interdisciplinary Studies Minor in Latina/o Studies at The Ohio State University. Lrod is currently an awardee of the Migration, Mobility, and Immobility Project Graduate Grant (19) for the current production of two films on the Tex-Mex border, and The Graduate School’s Alumni Grants for Graduate Research and Scholarship (AGGRS) Program (19).  Recognized as a multi-disciplinary choreographer she has produced work Seattle for Base Experimental Arts + Space, Center for Contemporary Art (COCA), City Opera Ballet, Men in Dance, Boost Dance Festival, Converge Dance Festival, Men in Dance Choreographers Showcase, and New Moves. She has performed in works by Kyle Abraham, Sidra Bell, Livable Futures: Climate Gathering, Deborah Wolf, Pat Graney, Wade Madsen, Spareworks.Dance, and Erison Dancers. For the past year and a half, LROD has been a collaborator with La Pocha Nostra and Guillermo Gómez-Peña. 

For more information visit: www.lrod.space

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Guest Artist Navarra Novy-Williams / Contemporary Workshop
Jan
25
4:30 PM16:30

Guest Artist Navarra Novy-Williams / Contemporary Workshop

Join Navarra in this contemporary dance workshop in collaboration with Livable Futures.

The workshop begins with an emphasis on listening to the individual body, exploring a full range of physical sensations, rhythms, and efforts. We then move into an awareness of our collective body in space. Through structured play and improvisation, we uncover a movement landscape that is entirely unique to this space, in this moment, with these people.

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Climate Gathering Tour Kicks off in NYC
Jan
15
11:00 AM11:00

Climate Gathering Tour Kicks off in NYC

These unique interactive events integrate intense sonic immersion, performance and community dialog focused turning toward climate crisis. Past participants identify these gatherings as transformative opportunities to face the magnitude of the issue and find authentic means for feeling into action.

Spaces are limited. Please request an invitation to attend the next gathering at Barnard January 15th at 11am.

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Solstice Rituals for Livable Futures
Dec
20
4:00 PM16:00

Solstice Rituals for Livable Futures

  • FLUX + FLOW Dance and Movement Center (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Community movement workshop open to everyone!

Just in time for Solstice, Norah Zuniga Shaw and Michael J. Morris will facilitate an evening of creative movement, sounding, and rituals that help us turn toward change and uncertainty while reaching together for individual and collective well being.

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Nadia Lauro: Residency and Artist Talk
Dec
9
4:00 PM16:00

Nadia Lauro: Residency and Artist Talk

  • ACCAD Sullivant Hall Motion Lab 350 (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Nadia Lauro creative residency for Climate Gathering project December 9-13, 2019 with Public Artist Talk 4pm December 9. Refreshments provided.

Photo Credits: La Clairiere. Conception : Fanny de Chaillé et Nadia Lauro. Photos: Marc Domage et Nadia Lauro. Création Nouvaeu Festival, Centre George Pompidou, 2013

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FluxFlow Dance Project: Ursula
Dec
5
8:00 AM08:00

FluxFlow Dance Project: Ursula

Utilizing the intersections between dance, theater, and music, Ursula explores social power dynamics and malleable definitions of freedom within the world of a fictional circus. Inspired by the story within Joanna Newsom’s song “Monkey & Bear,” the work moves between personal narratives and moments of abstraction while admiring how living beings use invention to cope with systems of control.

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Un-becoming Carbon: Traveling in Intercellular Space
Dec
4
5:00 PM17:00

Un-becoming Carbon: Traveling in Intercellular Space

multimedia art installation that focuses on the importance of carbon sequestration by plants. The viewers enter the plants’ intercellular space, beginning their journey as a molecule of carbon dioxide, donating their carbon to the plant’s body, and emerging as life-giving oxygen. The interactive installation explores this process through physical, audio and virtual reality experiences.

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Community Movement Class
Nov
9
4:30 PM16:30

Community Movement Class

  • FLUX + FLOW Dance and Movement Center (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Community movement class open to all! Many of our Livable Futures collaborators list movement and open ended creative exploration as part of what helps them thrive in uncertain times. To that end, we are teaming up with Flux & Flow dance studio to host a series of Community Movement classes and we are kicking off the series with a special Gaga Dance class with James Graham! Open to everyone!

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Complex Movements Public Dialogue
Nov
1
3:00 PM15:00

Complex Movements Public Dialogue

Livable Futures is hosting a Public Dialogue with Detroit-based art and media collective Complex Movements as part of their weeklong Creative Residency. October 27-November 3, 2019.

Join us for a Public Dialogue with the artists November 1st.
Free and open to the public. Food and refreshments provided. Visit the ‘events page’ on our website to RSVP.

Photo credit: Doug Coombe

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Complex Movements Reading Room
Oct
25
5:00 PM17:00

Complex Movements Reading Room

Livable Futures is hosting Detroit-based art and media collective Complex Movements for a creative residency at OSU October 27-November 3, 2019. Join us in advance of their arrival, we will screen a short film about Complex Movements’ recent project Beware of the Dandelions and discuss excerpts from adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy.

Free and open to the public. Food and refreshments provided. Visit the ‘events page’ on our website to RSVP.

Photo credit: Doug Coombe

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#BePreparedNotScared Emergent Strategy Reading Room
Sep
27
12:30 PM12:30

#BePreparedNotScared Emergent Strategy Reading Room

Join us at ACCAD for our National Preparedness Month #BePreparedNotScared event including discussion of FEMA recommendation, creative and joyful approaches to preparedness and ideas from Emergent Strategy, the book by Adrienne Maree Brown that serves as a galvanizing force for the Livable Futures project. Attendees are invited to share thoughts on the reading and ideas for developing readiness plan for yourselves and your communities. We will also have a raffle for 5 places in a Wilderness First Responder training in December and open time to discuss projects ideas for the coming year. Come connect with faculty and students in the community and learn about funding opportunities.

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Artist Talk: Candace Thompson
Sep
24
5:00 PM17:00

Artist Talk: Candace Thompson

  • The Collaboratory, 141 Sullivant Hall (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

In her artist talk “Weeds are My Role Model,” artist and activist Candace Thompson shares her Collaborative Urban Resilience Banquet (The C.U.R.B.) project which uses the act of urban foraging and the projected "what if" disaster scenarios of climate change to examine critical issues around food and food sovereignty, land access, environmental remediation, multi-species interdependence, and right relationship(s) with the (un)natural world.

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