Micro-multiplicities: Re-aligning the Skeleton to Explore our Queer Selves by Jill Sigman
Presented as part of NEXT! Workshops at Judson Church. A low-impact workshop series by Pioneers Go East Collective
Free workshop.. All are welcome!
When: Tuesday, November 1 I 6p-7.20p
Micro-multiplicities: Re-aligning the Skeleton to Explore our Queer Selves by Jill Sigman
Who are the many selves we know and don’t know who are part of us? For me, queerness has to do with recognizing and embracing those varied selves, allowing them to co-exist, and eradicating pre-determined options for identity. In this workshop, we engage with the queerness of multiplicity by exploring how tiny shifts in the bony structures of our bodies can lead to very different experiences of being in the world. We will begin with breath and imaging and then move into slow and sustained work with the skeleton. We will eventually shift focus outward toward connecting with others and the space around us. No prior training or experience necessary. We will spend a fair amount of time sitting on the floor for those who are comfortable. Please let us know if you have mobility issues or other special needs.
Jill Sigman is a queer artist and agent of change who loves all things liminal. Her work exists at the intersection of dance, social practice, and visual installation. Sigman founded jill sigman/thinkdance in 1998 to think about pressing social issues through the body, and in 2016, she founded “Body Politic”, a program of workshops and performance laboratories to ask salient political questions somatically. Working with things we throw away such as “garbage” and “weeds”, Sigman helps us to envision a future in which we re-connect with the natural world and each other in meaningful and empathic ways. Sigman was the first Gibney Community Action Artist in Residence; has been in residence at Movement Research, Guapamacátaro Interdisciplinary Residency in Art and Ecology (Mexico), The Rauschenberg Residency, Catwalk, MANCC, and the Tisch Initiative for Creative Research at NYU; and is a Creative Campus Fellow at Wesleyan University. She was born and raised in Brooklyn.
NEXT! Workshops at Judson Church. A free and low-impact series of workshops featuring guest teaching artists. Welcoming & accessible to everybody.
All guests will be required to be fully vaccinated (please bring proof of vaccination). All visitors will be required to wear a face-covering at all times while they are at Judson Church. In addition, all surfaces are being sanitized on a regular basis. Please note the performers will perform maskless, but they are fully vaccinated and observing New York State’s Department of Health protocols for in-person events.
DIRECTIONS: Judson Church
The entrance is located at 243 Thompson, New York, New York, 10012
Subway: A, C, E, B, D, F, M to West 4th Street or N, Q, R to NYU 8th Street.
Accessibility: Our accessible entrance is by way of 243 Thompson St. Use the lift to get to the Meeting Room on Level 3 or our accessible bathrooms on Level B (basement). Return to Level 1 for street access back to the corner of West 4th & Thompson St.
Photo: Jill Sigman with photo credit Beau Banks