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  Studio experiments in plaster and fabric

  Nirmal Raja
  

  Nirmal Raja
  "Studio experiments in plaster and fabric"
  2018

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  What is Recorded/ What is Remembered 11

  Nirmal Raja
  

  Nirmal Raja
  still photograph
  50x37.5”
  2018

  What is recorded | What is remembered responds to an engraved timeline of Wisconsin and America’s history on Milwaukee’s river-walk. Raja made a rubbing of sections of this timeline on 30 yards of fabric with the intent to explore how she fits into American history. The fabric then became a prop for ten performance-based photographs and two separate video works that bring attention to our fraught relationship to history. With an implicit understanding that history is written by victors (usually male) and with plenty of gaps and errors, they choreographed sequences that evoke our conflicted relationship with history. In the three-channel video work the fabric and ritual actions are performed by nineteen women. History is visualized as a membrane that connects, divides, filters and binds. They made a deliberate choice to give prominence to women from diverse backgrounds and stand in for marginalized communities and pay homage to their crucial role in this nation’s story. These three works address the slippage of time, inter-connectedness, and the burden of responsibility.

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  What is Recorded/ What is Remembered 413

  Nirmal Raja
  

  Nirmal Raja
  "What is Recorded/What is Remembered
  still photograph
  50x37.5"
  2018

  What is recorded | What is remembered responds to an engraved timeline of Wisconsin and America’s history on Milwaukee’s river-walk. Raja made a rubbing of sections of this timeline on 30 yards of fabric with the intent to explore how she fits into American history. The fabric then became a prop for ten performance-based photographs and two separate video works that bring attention to our fraught relationship to history. With an implicit understanding that history is written by victors (usually male) and with plenty of gaps and errors, they choreographed sequences that evoke our conflicted relationship with history. In the three-channel video work the fabric and ritual actions are performed by nineteen women. History is visualized as a membrane that connects, divides, filters and binds. They made a deliberate choice to give prominence to women from diverse backgrounds and stand in for marginalized communities and pay homage to their crucial role in this nation’s story. These three works address the slippage of time, inter-connectedness, and the burden of responsibility.

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  What is Recorded/ What is Remembered 75

  Nirmal Raja
  

  Nirmal Raja
  still photograph
  50x37.5”
  2018

  What is recorded | What is remembered responds to an engraved timeline of Wisconsin and America’s history on Milwaukee’s river-walk. Raja made a rubbing of sections of this timeline on 30 yards of fabric with the intent to explore how she fits into American history. The fabric then became a prop for ten performance-based photographs and two separate video works that bring attention to our fraught relationship to history. With an implicit understanding that history is written by victors (usually male) and with plenty of gaps and errors, they choreographed sequences that evoke our conflicted relationship with history. In the three-channel video work the fabric and ritual actions are performed by nineteen women. History is visualized as a membrane that connects, divides, filters and binds. They made a deliberate choice to give prominence to women from diverse backgrounds and stand in for marginalized communities and pay homage to their crucial role in this nation’s story. These three works address the slippage of time, inter-connectedness, and the burden of responsibility.

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  Highways

  Mitsu Salmon
  

  Mitsu Salmon

  Highways is an evening length piece which incorporates storytelling, vocals, movement and drawing with live sound by artist Kevin Carey. The piece addresses themes around travel, family and grief as well as explores philosophical ideas around time and place.

  Presented at the IMPACT PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL at the School for the Art Institute of Chicago, April 2014.

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  Tsuchi

  Mitsu Salmon
  

  Mitsu Salmon
  Tsuchi performed at the Studebaker Theater May 29th, 2016
  As part of the event Echo produced by In/habit, Milad Mozari and Studebaker Theater

  Tsuchi is a solo interdisciplinary performance piece. It draws from Mitsu's great- grandfather’s experience of immigrating from Japan to Hawaii as a farmer and then pursuing his dream of becoming a high-end waiter. The piece delves into and obscures his life and then branches out to the stories of Mitsu's, the Hawaiian queen and a steel guitar musician. The work explores questions of family and travels through Butoh, contemporary dance, and everyday movements with music and text. The work is a collaboration between Mitsu and sound artists Alyssa Moxley, Kevin Carey and Mike Hero. Development of Tsuchi was sponsored by High Concept Labs and supported by a residency at the Chicago Cultural Center and Oxbow.

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  Abolition NOW March for Philando Castile + Alton Sterling

  Sarah-Ji
  

  Sarah-Ji (Love + Struggle Photos)
  Abolition NOW March for Philando Castile + Alton Sterling
  July 15, 2016

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  Decriminalize Black Protest

  Sarah-Ji
  

  Sarah-Ji (Love + Struggle Photos)
  Decriminalize Black Protest
  December 2014