As we continue to work on distro for the initial INNRSPCE visual album, we’re also going to start featuring artists and art that we feel is contributing to *life* on Earth.
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To kick this off, we’re excited to share some new music from Mikah Amani @mikaaahhhhh that we can’t stop listening to.
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We got to connect with Mikah for a quick chat and here is what Mikah had to say about the music and creative process...
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“In recent months, music has meant more to me than I ever thought it would. As a high school student I was really passionate about performing and recording my songs, but eventually, because of a lack of support, money, and an ongoing struggle with mental health, I let the dream go. I rediscovered the passion while recording my first song, Cabaret St., in a small bedroom studio I created after the pandemic hit. What started out as something I thought would be a productive use of newfound time or a healthy release at best, has become a craft that I want to practice for as long as I can.
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As a new recording artist, I am not always sure what draws me back to the desk where my equipment, my songbook, and my guitar and tiny keyboard all lay waiting. Perhaps it is the meditative state in which I find myself while composing a new riff, or the fact that, as a quiet kid, I stifled my voice for so long that using it to sing feels like a new freedom. What I know is that when I sit down to write or record a song, when I complete and release one, I am doing something kind for myself, and I hope that I am doing that for others, too.
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My latest release, Blue, is the personification of an addiction that I battled in recent years. Really, I believe that it can be replaced with any vice, any struggle, any person who has held the listener back from finding life or confined them in some way. Every day, I am finding small, new ways to be compassionate with myself, new ways of living out my wildest dreams, new ways of being an artist on earth. For the listener: How are you finding life despite…?”
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Swipe to hear a clip from Blue, and check out all the music at the link in @mikaaahhhhh’s bio.
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#findinglifeonearth
The Aftermath was a senior thesis choreographic research project created by @briihawk that premiered in April of 2019. The work was an investigation on how bodies relate and gravitate towards one another depending on circumstance and conflict. In this work, the emotional stages of the fight or flight nervous system and confrontation were honed in on closely, highlighting both the fantasies and fears that emerge out of our curiosities for the unknown. The geometrics and placement of the bodies in space highlight the roles of spectatorship versus participation.
As an artist and mental health advocate, I have always found society’s tendency to mimic one another fascinating. It’s alarming to live in a country where more people tend to value individualism over communal support. As we have dealt with the COVID pandemic on top of confronting the violence of white suprematist structures and power, it is evident that although we are told to remain isolated, we are more physically charged towards one another than we have been in quite some time. Our bodies have always been politicized as we are policed and punished for fighting against structures that wish to contain us and have always kept us apart in a country that claims to uphold unity and freedom. It is a time where we must choose whether to be a spectator or an active participant while living in a world that makes us fear our innate instincts. There is a discipline and sense of empathy that arises in revolting against these systems and barriers that make us feel that we cannot ALL be protected and thrive - the “every man for himself” mindset must be unpacked and disposed. The world is our arena to play in, to shape-shift, to battle, and to transform.
✨What are some of your tools or “super powers” used towards dismantling these structures? What world are we re-building?✨ #findinglifeonearth
"Sky Ray Crossing" by @just.indie_cisive
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In the world of Mythallum, travellers ride giant sky rays through the air when traveling great distances.
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How are you finding life on earth? Fantasy? Dance? Cooking? Use #findinglifeonearth to let us know!
#floe #innrspce
Extended until July 15! View the full INNRSPCE visual album and exciting works from an array of artists at @proteomedia...
Repost from @proteomedia
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POST / FUTURE PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL
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Thank you everyone for engaging with the festival this month! Our fourth and final theme, Post/Futures, is now open! Follow the link in our bio to see the work.
Post/Futures leaves us with more questions than answers as we look towards a future that is post-now, post-this. Each of these artists is concerned with creating alternate ideas of what comes next and how we might navigate the future with a stronger sense of togetherness and commitment to each other. Among these artists is choreographer/filmmaker Tori Lawrence @torilawrenceco!
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The work: "What if my being has progressed so far that I no longer belong in this land? What if our version of progress within modernist capitalist development keeps us at a distance from it all? To modernize the body so that it no longer fits." .
The artist: Tori Lawrence is a choreographer/filmmaker and the 2019-20 Artist-in-Residence and Lecturer at Middlebury College. She creates site-specific multimedia performances and analog/digital dance films. Her environmentally-based work inspires an imaginative and sustainable way of looking at, thinking about, and using space. She has been awarded grants from Lighton International Artists Exchange and NEFA to fund her recent dance film projects. She has been awarded artist residencies and fellowships at Yaddo, Djerassi, Playa, Brunakra, Ucross Foundation, Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation, Charlotte Street Foundation, Dance Ireland, and Budapest's Workshop Foundation. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa. www.torilawrence.org
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ALL DONATIONS MADE ON THE P/FPF SITE WILL BE GIVEN BACK TO OUR BRILLIANT ARTISTS!
#proteomedia #proteomediaandperformance #virtualart #virtualfestival #onlinefestival #moveonline #postfuture #postfutureperformancefestival
✨TONIGHT✨7pm ET✨Q&A and @sunsetsmpls dance party to follow. Link in bio. #findinglifeonearth
Awakenings
📷🖌:@just.indie_cisive
#INNRSPCE #findinglifeonearth #FLOE
The Dark in the Light
🕺🏾:@just.indie_cisive 📷:@wrenlo416
#INNRSPCE #findinglifeonearth #FLOE
The Light in the Dark
💃🏼:@livxorouse 📷:@just.indie_cisive
#INNRSPCE #findinglifeonearth #FLOE
The Violet Archer
💃🏼:@briihawk 📷:@just.indie_cisive
#INNRSPCE #findinglifeonearth #FLOE
The Dragon's Den
💃🏻:@wrenlo416 📷:@just.indie_cisive
#INNRSPCE #findinglifeonearth #FLOE
@briihawk #findinglifeonearth
Entangled ~ thinking about touch and togetherness during this time especially ✨ #findinglifeonearth
“In this world where time has dissolved, I’m realizing that I am in fact healing...” - @briihawk .
Stay tuned for Bri to takeover this account later today! .
#innrspce
#findinglifeonearth
#may14
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📸: @just.indie_cisive
What is your wish for the earth?
✨Tap into the fearless, the brave, and the bold with us as prepare to release our fantasy visual album, INNRSPCE: #findinglifeonearth, premiering May 14 7pm. Q&A to follow. Link in bio✨
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Featuring: @wrenlo416 @just.indie_cisive @livxorouse @briihawk .
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Choreography and co-direction: @margueriteangelicamonique .
Co-direction and produced by: @bakeddpotatoes .
DP: @sebastianlrfilm .
AD and Art Supervisor: @laiyiyiyi .
Gaffer: Kurt Voltmann
Key Grip: Maria Cabra
1st AC: Julia Moses
2nd AC: @gisellearibleuz .
PA: @aki_shawky.547389_ .
Music Composition: @solowoods .
Location: @beelectricstudio
Production Co: @lnbrkmedia
What needs to happen to make it so?
What is your wish for the earth? 🌎
