Open Lab:
Carissa Lee | Thrival
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Doors at 1:30 p.m.
Performance at 2:00 p.m.
Estimated Duration: 45 mins
Thrival is an improvisational sonic performance developed and performed by Carissa Lee and Kezia Waters where history is folded upon itself to highlight the primal technologies of sound that have carried us through time.
Through the use of voice and percussion Carissa and Kezia will question the vibratory thresholds of our emotions and steer participants into the vital space between perception and the past. Thrival invites the recollection of collective memories to make new time together and to tune into the sonic body. This piece is an ongoing exploration as part of Carissa Lee’s 2024 residency with HCL. There will be a brief Q&A with the artists following the performance.
Content Disclosure: There may be loud or sudden sounds and strobe lighting during the performance.
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About the Artists
Carissa Lee is a Chicago and Los Angeles based artist who works with performance, sound, public intervention, workshops, video, and theater. She uses recordings, writing, Black southern culture (including medical histories, stories, music etc.) and voice to materialize emotions of grief, and isolation. Her work synthesizes her desires for an empathetic tomorrow that holds compassion for all people. In addition to being an artist, she is a passionate teacher who has worked with theaters and organizations across Los Angeles to help students of all ages use their lived experience to make performances. She received her BFA in theater from NYU And MFA in Studio Art with focus in performance from the School of the Art institute Chicago. She is a founding member of the Suspended Culture art collective. She has exhibited work in Los Angeles CA, Chicago IL, and Quebec City Canada.
For more information, visit www.carissapinckney.com.
Kezia Waters is a Storyteller/ Performance Artist located in Chicago, IL. Their work lives between the worlds of ethnography, folklore, ritual and the living archive. Through surrealism they try to find things that are Holy, Whole, and Holds. A humanist fairy. They have performed in the Biennale d’art Performative de Rouyn-Noranda of Canada, Dazibao Gallery in Montreal and Recto- Verso in Quebec City and numerous galleries around Chicago. Kezia was a 2023 In-Session Fellow at ThreeWalls, studying the Performance and Folklore of Zora Neale Hurston and also an Adjunct Professor of Acting & African American Theatre at Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio. He is also a founding member of Suspended Culture, a Chicago based gallery performance collective.
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Presented by High Concept Labs and the Monira Foundation in Joint Residency at Mana Contemporary.