PRIMORDIAL + TOUCH LIBRARY
Meg Foley + Carmichael JonesJuly 2 - 13
GALLERY OPEN HOURS
JULY 2 - 6; 12-5pm
JULY 8 - 13; 12-5pm
Primordial is a video and sound installation co-created by choreographer Meg Foley and her partner and co-parent, visual artist Carmichael Jones. It’s Meg’s engagement with the intersection of her 43 years on this planet with the creation story of the 300 million year-old rocks that can be found in places like Red Rock Canyon or the Flatirons at the base of the Rocky Mountains, captured and translated visually by Carmichael. A devotional practice, she learns the deep time history of each Primordial site and attempts to embody the geological processes that formed the current land.
Touch Library is a living archive of the creation of the Blood Baby project where your body is the site of the experience. Featuring some of the prompts, objects, materials, and exercises that formed the body of the project itself, Touch Library traces questions of being a self/body in immediate sensorial relation and how that shapes our sense of time and feeling through viewer activation. You are invited to engage with the lineage of the project and your own experience at your own pace and for your own discovery. To enjoy softness. To be held, be squished, feel weight. Be immersed in sound. Play. To slow down. To connect to viscera in order to connect to the earth.
Primordial and Touch Library are two parts of a larger project called Blood Baby, which includes site-responsive dance performance and Queer Parent Convenings, in addition to Communion, a gently participatory exploration of our bodies and embodied identities in deep time, being performed July 6 as part of A.P.E.’s Making Ground dialogues. Blood Baby uses multiple mediums to explore the interconnected experiences of queer and gender non-conforming parenting and family-building, highlighting gender, sexuality, community, and Earthly lineage.
ARTIST BIOS
Meg Foley is a queer dance artist, educator, and parent who creates performances and somatic-based events as self-affirming practices. She currently researches queer time, gender-nonconforming community & family, geology and how we are formed. Her improvisational practice builds detailed movement vocabularies out of scientifically engaged research and lived experience.Carmichael Jones is a Philadelphia based artist who creates installations, sculptures, films, photographs and performative objects to rupture the presumed parameters of encountering and address political concerns of representation. Jones explores social dynamics through light, tension, orientation and scale with an attention to edges, contradictions and relationships between materials. Jones’ work is often playful and slightly irreverent, blending the everyday and the never-seen-before, the meticulous and the reckless, the readymade and the handcrafted. Jones is creative co-director of The Whole Shebang and a former fellow at the Creative Glass Center of America. They hold an MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art.