CUE Foundation’s Ongoing June Performance Series

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Thursday, June 11, 18 and 25, from 8pm EST

Cue present Lull, lulla, lullen, a weekly installment of collaborative performances that draw upon the lullaby—songs that have served to soothe and express worry, while also passing down cultural knowledge. One of the ways moments of isolation, uncertainty, and mourning can affect our collective imagination is in the form of vivid dreams and restless sleep. In response, the lullaby acts as a prompt for caring for one another while sharing narratives of resistance, resilience, loss, and hope.

Taking place online every Thursday in June, this series of evening performances invites artists to address current states of un-rest. Each week they have invited one artist to participate and, in turn, asked them to invite a second artist to collaborate with them. The resulting works take the form of bedtime rituals and dreams for the future, explorations of traditional Lakota lullabies, guided meditations, telenovelas, and sing-alongs.

Recordings of these events will be available on CUE’s website for a minimum of one week following each performance. 

Postponed: New date TBASomething to do before bed
A performance by Morgan Bassichis and DonChristian Jones

Thursday, June 11, 8pm (Eastern Time)
hokšíkilowaŋpi by Kite and Corey Stover

Thursday, June 18, 8pm (Eastern Time)
A guided meditation by Clay AD and Romily Alice Walden  

Thursday, June 25, 8pm (Eastern Time)
A performance by Arisleyda Dilone and Camilo Godoy

Details and links for each event will be announced shortly. If you have specific access questions or needs, please contact info@cueartfoundation.org and they will do their best to accommodate you.

You can find out more about CUE’s exhibitions and events program here.

Artist Information

Clay AD was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and now lives in Berlin where they are a somatic body-worker, tarot reader, writer and artist. In their interdisciplinary practice they honour and explore illness, ecology, science fiction, transformation and the politics of care under capitalism -- by themselves, collectively and with their clients. Their first novel, "Metabolize, If Able" is available through Arcadia Missa Press UK and was named a finalist in the 31st Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror. Their writing has been published by Pilot Press, Futures Journal, Hematopoiesis Press, and Monster House Press. They have led somatic and writing workshops at NGBK Berlin, Gemeinde Köln and Shedhalle Zurich, and read internationally including at the Institute for Contemporary Arts London. They received their BFA from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.

Morgan Bassichis is a comedian and musician whose work often draws on historical archives. Recent shows include Nibbling the Hand that Feeds Me (Whitney Museum, NYC, 2019), Klezmer for Beginners (co-created with Ethan Philbrick, Abrons Arts Center, NYC, 2019), Damned If You Duet (featuring Malik Gaines, Helen Messineo-Pandjiris, Ethan Philbrick, and Mariana Valencia, The Kitchen, NYC, 2018), and The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions (co-created with TM Davy, DonChristian Jones, Michi Ilona Osato, & Una Aya Osato, New Museum, NYC, 2017). Their year-long musical improvisation with Ethan Philbrick, March is For Marches, is available from Triple Canopy, and their live recording of More Protest Songs! at St. Mark's Church (featuring Kyle Combs, Elizabeth LoPiccolo, Sam Greenleaf Miller, and Rhys Ziemba) is available online. 

Arisleyda Dilone is an artist and filmmaker born in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic. In 2015, she completed the short film: Mami y Yo y Mi Gallito/Mom and Me and My Little Rooster which has screened nationally at the Brooklyn Arts Museum, New Orleans Film Festival, Brooklyn Museum and Mercer Union to name a few. Arisleyda is a member of Diverse Filmmakers Alliance, Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective, and Ay Ombe Theater. She was a 2014 UnionDocs fellow and a 2015 Queer Art Program fellow. She has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, Macdowell Colony and Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center. She is currently in post-production on Y Este Cuerpo También/This Body, Too, a feature documentary about her intersex body and the construction of femininity and womanhood in her Dominican-American family.

Camilo Godoy is an artist and an educator born in Bogotá, Colombia and based in New York, United States. He is a graduate of The New School with a BFA from Parsons School of Design, 2012; and a BA from Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, 2013. Godoy was a 2018 Session Artist, Recess; 2018 Artist-in-Residence, Leslie-Lohman Museum; 2018 Artist-in-Residence, coleção moraes-barbosa; 2017 Artist-in-Residence, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP); 2015-2017 Artist-in-Residence, Movement Research; among others. He has presented his work in New York at the Brooklyn Museum, CUE, Danspace Project, PARTICIPANT INC; Mousonturm, Frankfurt; Toronto Biennial, Toronto; among others.

DonChristian Jones is a Philly born, New York-based artist, singer/songwriter, and producer. His work spans musical and time based performance, rap albums, video and public murals, blending genres of painting and performance installation. DonChristian has shown and performed at The Whitney Museum, MoMA PS1, New Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Carnegie Center, and was an artist-in-residence at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Captiva, Florida in 2017. DonChristian's debut album "Where There's Smoke," available online, was listed by Forbes as one of The Best Hip Hop Albums of 2018.

Kite aka Suzanne Kite is an Oglala Lakota performance artist, visual artist, and composer raised in Southern California, with an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School, and is a PhD candidate at Concordia University, Research Assistant for the Initiative for Indigenous Futures, and a 2019 Trudeau Scholar. Her research is concerned with contemporary Lakota epistemologies through research-creation, computational media, and performance practice. Recently, Kite has been developing a body interface for movement performances, carbon fiber sculptures, immersive video & sound installations.

Corey Stover (Oglala Lakota) is the Vice President of the Medicine Root District Executive Board of Pine Ridge Reservation. Stover holds a Bachelors in Lakota Studies, with an emphasis in Indian Law. He is a powwow dancer and a traditional artist focusing on beadwork.

Romily Alice Walden is a transdisciplinary artist whose work centres a queer, disabled perspective on the fragility of the body. Their practice spans sculpture, installation, video, curation and printed matter, all of which is undertaken with a socially engaged and research-led working methodology. Recent work has shown at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art: Newcastle, Hebel Am Uffer: Berlin, SOHO20: New York and Tate Exchange: Tate Modern: London. In 2019 Walden was a Shandaken Storm King resident, and will be resident at Wysing Arts Centre in 2020. They work both individually and collectively as a member of Sickness Affinity Group; a group of art workers and activists who work on the topic of sickness/disability and/or are affected by sickness/disability.