Every Tongue Confess: A Ritual On Remembering (Dzidzor Azaglo & Steph Davis)
When:
Friday, Sep 06, 2024 6:00p -
9:30p
Friday, Sep 06, 2024 6:00p -
9:30p
Where:
Goethe-Institut Boston
170 Beacon St.
Boston, MA 02116
Admission:
FREE
Hosted by:
Categories:
Art
Event website:
https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/de/sta/bos/ver.cfm?event_id=25896351&fuseaction=events.detail
Installation & Performance
Join us for our next Studio 170 artist residency featuring Marimbist, composer and cultural activist STEPH DAVIS and Ga-Ewe folklore performing artist DZIDZOR AZAGLO with
EVERY TONGUE CONFESS: A RITUAL ON REMEMBERING
An invitation to listen closely, “‘Every Tongue Confess,” is an evening-length performance and multifaceted installation inspired by Zora Neal Hurtson folktales. Throughout a multimedia installation, physical space becomes a container for memory and healing, and reflection about “how it feels to be here on earth or leaving, or about the sweet pain of hanging on between the coming and going.” (Hurston, 2001) Collected in the late 1920s, Every Tongue Got to Confess is the third volume of folk-tales from the celebrated author of Their Eyes Were Watching God. Born on Jan. 7, 1891, in Notasulga, Alabama, Hurston moved with her family to Eatonville, Florida, when she was still a toddler. Her writings reveal no recollection of her Alabama beginnings. For Hurston, Eatonville was always home.
Dzidzor’s ability to collage live poems and soundscapes from speakers, sermons, and nature, combined with Steph Davis’ ability to stir, evoke, and shape the complexity of humanity through the marimba, is a merge of artistic innovation and profound storytelling — a glitch, a disruptive tapestry of memory and confession. The audience is invited to participate as witnesses through the practice of listening closely (Hurston, 2001), call and response, and embodiment.
The performance will weave themes of freedom, spirituality, healing, and pain through visuals, sound, and movement inspired by traditional African/African-American practices. The performance forges a space to manipulate time and disrupt the sonic environment of colonialism. We invite the audience to sit with the discomfort and wonder of the dead, the living, and beyond —as we honor traditions of possibility, resilience, collective care, liberation, and truth-telling.
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