The Movement Lab is partnering with Moving Body — Moving Image to host Digital Black Dance Ecologies (DBDE)’s Laboratory (closed to the public), Installations, and a Public Screening.

Laboratory: As part of the project, Digital Black Dance Ecologies will hold two experimental research labs, the first hosted by Moving Body — Moving Image at The Movement Lab of Barnard College. The Lab will explore the theme of Fugitivity in relation to environmental and social injustice through embodied epistemologies. The meeting of technology and Black dance practice creates new opportunities for critical knowledge production. As a form of ancestral technology, Africanist dance enables connections across African Diasporic histories, both sacred and secular, when performed which is then amplified in digital forms. The Lab will be an intimate space consisting of black artist-researchers and academics who will bring insight and expertise. Over three days, lab participants will engage in a series of technical playground investigations, round-table discussions, and workshops/sessions led by the group.

Open to the public are:

1) Installations at The Movement Lab

Monday, October 7 to Thursday, October 10 from 3 PM to 6 PM

Monday, October 14 to Friday, October 18 from 3 PM to 6 PM

Featuring works by DBDE artists/scholars: Jonathan Gonzalez, Cara Hagan, Alexandrina Helmsley, Gabri Christa, Tia-Monique Uzor, Andre Zachary

2) Film Screening at the Movement Lab

Friday, October 11 from 6 PM to 8 PM

Film screening includes Kankantri by Gabri Christa (Suriname – USA), Terra Matter (Zambia), and others.

Please note that limited seating is available and capacity in the lab is capped at 40 audience members. Attendees who have RSVP’d before the event will have priority, and admission will be determined on a first come first serve basis on arrival. If you RSVP before the event but arrive late, we reserve the right to give your spot to someone on the waitlist.

Attendees who have not RSVP’d will be put on a standby waitlist if they arrive in person before the event.

RSVP

IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING CAMPUS ACCESS FOR GUESTS – PLEASE READ!

To visit the installations and/or film screening, please RSVP by submitting this form. You may also contact us via email at movement@barnard.edu or via Instagram at least ONE DAY in advance. We will coordinate your entry through the main campus entrance (3009 Broadway). Visitors with valid Barnard/Columbia IDs can walk in.

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