Virtual Salon #24: Anti-Capitalist Art Practice
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What is the relationship of artists and art-making to capitalism? How do we more ethically create an artistic practice under capitalism? What are strategies for navigating capitalism that value our artistic life? What are little acts of rebellion or practices we have within creative work that feel anti-capitalist?
Join Wingspace for this roundtable discussion with Regina Victor, Shey Rivera Ríos, Jenny Romaine, and Natalia Linares for a conversation about cultivating an anti-capitalist art practice. Moderated by Syndicate company member Ellenor Riley-Condit.
Co-produced by The Syndicate, a network of theater makers producing new plays, performances, and events with women, queer, and trans+ people at the center, this conversation is inspired by The Syndicate's most recent project A Day's Work which pays artists, cultural workers, and activists $200 ($25 per hour for 8 hours) to pursue their work, on their terms, for one day. In this project “work” means anything the person working wants it to mean; things like practicing self/collective care, organizing, or making a piece of art are among the many possibilities. You can learn more about A Day's Work here.
Thursday, April 1st, 8-10pm EST via Zoom and Facebook Live
Register in advance for this salon:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIudOyvrTopGtGFBrkxjhRLlQCqfc2oQndf
Wingspace is committed to inclusivity and we are dedicated to increasing accessibility for all our events. If you have questions or concerns centered around access or accommodations we strongly welcome you to please reach out to us via DM or email: salons@wingspace.com
JENNY ROMAINE is a director, designer, puppeteer and co-founder of the visual theater collective Great Small Works. She is music director of Jennifer Miller’s CIRCUS AMOK and artist in residence at Milk Not Jails and Naming the Lost/Memorials. She has directed community based spectacles for numerous projects in New York City and around the world. Romaine was a sound archivist at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research for 13 years and for several decades has drawn on Yiddish/Pan Jewish primary source materials to create art that has contemporary meaning. Her projects include the Sukkos Mob (featured in the film Punk Jews), community Purim Shpiln with the Aftselakhis Spectacle Committee, The Revival of the Uzda Gravediggers, and Muntergang and Other Cheerful Downfalls with Great Small Works. Romaine has worked extensively as an educator in public schools, prisons, universities and museums. She currently is a Visiting Professor at the Pratt Institute department of Performance Studies. She was the first recipient of the Adrienne Cooper Award for Dreaming in Yiddish (2014), received a Marshall Meyer Risk-Taker Award from Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (2015). and is featured in Dazzle Camouflage: Spectacular Theatrical Strategies for Resistance and Resilience a monograph by Ezra Berkley Nepon.
Regina Victor (they/them/theirs) is a Black director, multidisciplinary artist, and arts critic. Presently Sideshow Theatre’s Artistic Director, and one of Newcity’s “Fifty People Who Really Perform for Chicago”-- two years running. They are the dramaturg for Jeannette The Musical, book by Lauren Gunderson, music by Ari Afsar. Victor has helped develop world premieres by Antoinette Nwandu, Anna Deavere Smith (Notes from the Field), Sarah Ruhl, and are directing works in development by Brynne Frauenhoffer (Pro-Am, Kilroys List 2020), and Terry Guest (Marie Antoinette & the Magical Negroes). They co-founded Rescripted in 2017, an arts journalism platform by and for artists, and have written for other publications including American Theatre, Playbill, and the Chicago Reader. Other notable artistic collaborations include Steppenwolf Theater, Jackalope Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Timeline Theatre, California Shakespeare Theatre. In their spare time, they serve on the National Advisory Council for Howlround Theatre Commons, as a board member for The Sappho Project, and a member of the Beehive Dramaturgy Collective. Learn more at www.reginavictor.com.
Natalia Linares (Nati) grew up on the island of Shaolin, also known as Staten Island, New York City — close to both the world’s largest garbage dump and the oldest continuously inhabited free Black community in the United States. She’s the child of Cuban and Colombian immigrants who landed in Queens in the late 1960s, benefited from low-cost public college and raised her with a love of learning, exploration and music. As a mami, she strives to raise a son who can resist the patriarchy to become a full human being and embrace life’s contradictions. She comes to the solidarity economy movement after a decade witnessing inequities in the music and media industry while working with diasporadical and misrepresented artists. As a Communications and Cultural Organizer at the New Economy Coalition, Nati tells the stories of people resisting Capitalism and building new systems, especially those creating a culture of revolution.
Shey 'Rí Acu' Rivera Ríos (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist, arts administrator, and cultural strategist. sheyrivera.com