Re-Wilding
PRESS and PROMOTIONAL
INFORMATION
RAW MATERIAL: Re-Wilding The Body
A CALL TO ACTION!
WHO: Cilla Vee Life Arts
WHAT: RAW MATERIAL: Re-Wilding The Body
public art
installation and performance
WHERE: Chashama at Port Authority Transit Station NYC
8th
avenue – south wing 2nd floor
WHEN: August 19 – September 11
performances
mon-fri 4-8pm + sat sept 9 12-8pm
HOW MUCH: Free and open to the public
WHY: To inform, enlighten and inspire for
Environmental Sustainability
SUMMARY:
Between August 19th – September 11th
the interdisciplinary arts organization Cilla
Vee Life Arts will be presenting RAW MATERIAL: Re-Wilding The Body –
a
multimedia,
collaborative, sensory, interactive, public art installation that simulates a
nature environment, melding organic materials with digital audio-visual
elements plus live performance – through the NYC arts organization Chashama at their New York Port Authority transit station gallery and performance
space. (South Wing -2nd
floor)
Performances are free
and open to the public. Audience members are invited to engage in creative
response and to consider their relationship with nature and environmental
sustainability.
CVLA is partnering with
local NY based environmental organizations to go beyond just creating awareness
of environmental issues and to be a CALL TO ACTION by directly providing
resources for active engagement.
DETAILS:
Schedule of Events:
Saturday 19th 12-8pm – Open Rehearsal
Day
PUBLIC PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
Monday thru Friday at 4-8pm
(Installation open for viewing from 3pm)
AUGUST
August 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 30, 31,
SEPTEMBER
September 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
PLUS FINAL PERFORMANCE Saturday September 9th
12-8pm
Monday 11th time TBA – Closing
ceremony and 9/11 Memorial
Partners And Collaborators:
ARTS ORGANIZATIONS:
Cilla
Vee Life Arts is an interdisciplinary arts organization
established in 2002 at H&H Production, Bronx NY by Claire Elizabeth Barratt
/ aka CillaVee whose mission is one of creative collaboration and
boundary-blurring. Now based at The Center for Connection + Collaboration,
Asheville NC.
(cillavee.com / CCC-AVL.org)
Chashama Since 1995, Chashama has partnered with
property owners to transform unused real estate for 30,000 artists and over 150
small businesses, hosted 4,000 public art events, provided 1,500 classes in
under-served communities, and reached audiences of nearly a million.
(chashama.org)
ENVIRONMENTAL PARTNERSHIPS:
We
Act – weact.org
Climate
Ad Project – climateadproject.org
Green
Thumb – nycgovparks.org/greenthumb
Earth
Celebrations – earthcelebrations.com
Plus others TBA
ARTISTIC TEAM:
CillaVee
– Artistic Director
Fred
Hatt – fredhatt.com
Hisayasu
Takashio – shiotakashio.com
Marianne
Giosa -
Stewart
Hoyt – stewarthoyt.com
Sarah
Pope – sarahpopedance.com
Plus others TBA
Performance Philosophy and Aesthetic:
On a philosophical level, the RAW MATERIAL
project approaches concepts of transformation, metamorphosis and transcendence
through the relationship of the raw materials of the Self with the raw
materials of Nature. Drawing on mythological themes of the transformation of
human-body to nature-body, as presented in Ovid’s
Metamorphoses where humans transcend their mortal form in order to escape
trauma and find sanctuary in nature (eg. Daphne-tree, Syrinx-water), RAW
MATERIAL: Re-Wilding The Body is a performance installation that offers
the raw materials of an organic environment as a place of refuge, healing and
recovery.
Aesthetically, the objective of the performance
is to MELD with the environment. Not as a human-being in response to nature,
but as a nature-being existing in time and space as part of its environment.
PERFORMANCE METHODS:
Motion
Sculpture
The principle performance form will be that of
Motion Sculpture – a dance/movement method developed by CillaVee that is
sustainable for extended periods of time. Combining concepts of the body as a
living sculpture with philosophies of movement as meditation, this practice is
used for durational performance as a form of installation.
Extended
Music and Sound Techniques
Live sound will be vocal and acoustic
instrumental. All instruments/sound-making objects will be built of natural
materials as much as is possible. All music will use extended non-traditional
techniques to be in-keeping with the organic nature environment.
Public Engagement:
INVITATION and
EXPERIENCE:
As travelers pass
through the busy hub of Port Authority, they will be invited to step into a
simulated nature environment - an installation of music, dance, video
projection, sculpture and organic materials. They are encouraged to stop and
breathe, listen to the soothing music and nature sounds, watch the slow motion
movement of the dancers and to engage with an interactive sensory station –
feel the textures of organic materials – to run their fingers through sand, be
gently misted by water, to smell the earth and moss.
INQUIRY and RESPONSE:
We will invite them to
share their experience by describing how it TRANSFORMS them – how it makes them
feel different than before. Also to describe their favorite nature environment
and how it makes them feel. They can write, draw or record their responses and upload
them to a database.
ACTION and COMMITMENT:
Partnering
environmental organizations will provide resources. Representatives will be
available to talk about methods of protecting our nature environments, discuss
realistic, sustainable individual goals and offer their own local community
programs (for NYC residents) plus information about partners in other locations
(for visitors).
Cilla Vee Life Arts
will request participants contact information so we can stay in touch and
encourage their progress.
Environmental and Social
Impact:
The emphasis of RAW
MATERIAL: Re-Wilding The Body is
one of environmental ACTIVISM through the engagement of environmental
PARTNERSHIPS to:
1. CREATE AWARENESS of how our nature environments benefit us
physically, mentally and emotionally.
2. PROMOTE ACTION to preserve this precious resource.
Ultimately the mission and purpose of “RAW MATERIAL: Re-Wilding The Body” is to create awareness of nature
as sanctuary and the necessity to protect our precious environment. And that
EVERYBODY can do SOMETHING!
Often people feel that environmental problems on
a global scale are something they have no control over, so in partnering with
local environmental organizations we can help to personalize realistic everyday
habits and activities that are accessible to the individual.
We are partnering with local NYC based environmental
organizations to join us and provide information to the public about their
programming – such as opportunities for hands-on participation, like
volunteering in local parks and gardens or attending their educational and
training programs, as well as daily choices and political actions each of us
can make towards the progress of environmental sustainability.
The social impact target is on INDIVIDUAL EMPOWERMENT for
EVERYBODY: providing information about SUSTAINABLE INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY as
well as providing options for local COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.
The resources shared
with the public are relevant to both residents and visitors alike of all ages.
Individual responsibility actions are global. Partnering environmental
organizations will share their knowledge and information of local and global
opportunities for community engagement.
“A vibrant, fair, and regenerative future is possible — not when
thousands of people do climate justice activism perfectly but when millions of
people do the best they can.”— Xiye Bastida
“Look after the land and the land will look after you, destroy the
land and it will destroy you.” —Aboriginal Proverb
“All we have to do is to wake up and change.” —Greta Thunberg
LINKS:
Project
“HANDBOOK” Blog:
https://rewilding-project-blog.blogspot.com/
GoFundMe
FUNDRAISER Link:
https://gofund.me/4742825a
