MeMoSa: The Essence & The Choice by Matty Davis
Matty Davis presents: MeMoSa: The Essence & The Choice
Thursday, December 5th | 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
On December 5 at 6:00 PM, artist-in-residence Matty Davis will present an early work-in-progress performance from The Essence & The Choice, a new body of work that intricately braids live performance, photography, and writing, and which explores fatherhood, trust, and the impacts of our presence in (and absence from) one another’s lives.
“Essence” and “choice” as abstract concepts refer to a visceral, primordial reality. Anyone involved in the chromosomal making of a child is, biologically, in “essence,” a parent. To mother or father, however, is a “choice,” a verb, distinct in that it involves stewardship, teaching, learning, and sacrifice. It is the sum action of one’s sense of responsibility to a child.
While art history is now rife with phenomenal work regarding mothering and motherhood, work related to fatherhood, from a father’s perspective, is, interestingly, missing from the art historical canon. Davis’s work seeks to explore the contours and core of this absence.
The Essence & The Choice is performed by Matty Davis with Wolfgang Cooper Groassardt and a rotating cast of other people.
Doors open and event begins at 6:00 PM
To visit, please RSVP and contact us via email at movement@barnard.edu at least 24 hours before the event. We will coordinate your entry through the main entrance (3009 Broadway). Visitors with Barnard/Columbia IDs can walk in.
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.
