HOLDING WHAT CAN'T BE HELD: Two Nights of Performance with Jeremiah Day
Category: Events Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Fri, Aug 20, 2021 - Sat, Aug 21, 2021 9pm-10:30pm
Location
MING Studios
420 S 6th St
Details
In his work, the Berlin-based American artist Jeremiah Day (1974) re-examines landscapes of politics and civics, revealing their subjective contexts and traces. To do this, he Day has developed a narrative and choreographic form in which personal and political realities intermingle, thus offering a thoroughly singular vision of these at times forgotten moments of history. Often working together with figures like dancer Simone Forti, the band Chicks on Speed, or thinkers and activists like Fred Dewey, collaboration and self-organization of cultural spaces and events are key aspects of Day's vocabulary.
Day's contribution to Holding What Can't Be Held brings the question of nuclear waste into the broader frame of preservation, political organization and our ecological crisis. Day's first connection to Idaho was his longterm project on Idaho icon Frank Church, which Ming Studios will present in 2022. These two evenings of performance will be Day's first presentation of his work in Idaho and will be accompanied by the launch of his new publication If Its For The People, It Needs To Be Beautiful She Said.
Day graduated from the Art Department of the University of California, Los Angeles and attended the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. Day is represented by Arcade, London and Brussels and Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam.
