Far From Well
What is wellness and how can it be maintained whilst – living with, and despite white supremacy, anti-black racism, policing, and prisons? How do time and duration of trauma, sadness, and labor, shape Black people’s bodies and choreograph their movements? For the last four years, NIC Kay has utilized these questions and more to form the project, GET WELL SOON [exercises in getting well soon] which is based on a loose and often used phrase indicating a hope of recovery and a reckoning with the culturally abstracted terms wellness and hope. The [exercises in getting well soon] are a series of interdisciplinary performances with the aim to practice, ‘Hope as a discipline’. The exercises have been articulated as movement, installation, games, endurance, ritual, poetry, websites, and sound.
NIC Kay is from the Bronx. They are a person who makes performances and creates/organizes performative spaces. Their work choreographically highlights and meditates on Black life in relation-ship to space, social structures, and architecture through centering embodied practices. Their works have been performed nationally and internationally in spaces including Akademie der Künste, Berlin; Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto; Encuentro 19, Mexico; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Portland Institute of Contemporary Art; and Uni-versity of Arts, Zürich. They have exhi-bited work at the California College of the Arts; CCA Wattis Institute; Gallery 400, Chicago; and Woman Made Gallery, Chicago. They published their first book, Cotton Dreams, with Candor Arts in 2020.
Where: The Cooper Union
7 E. 7th St. | 41 Cooper Sq.
212-353-4100 Price: Free
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What is wellness and how can it be maintained whilst – living with, and despite white supremacy, anti-black racism, policing, and prisons? How do time and duration of trauma, sadness, and labor, shape Black people’s bodies and choreograph their movements? For the last four years, NIC Kay has utilized these questions and more to form the project, GET WELL SOON [exercises in getting well soon] which is based on a loose and often used phrase indicating a hope of recovery and a reckoning with the culturally abstracted terms wellness and hope. The [exercises in getting well soon] are a series of interdisciplinary performances with the aim to practice, ‘Hope as a discipline’. The exercises have been articulated as movement, installation, games, endurance, ritual, poetry, websites, and sound.
NIC Kay is from the Bronx. They are a person who makes performances and creates/organizes performative spaces. Their work choreographically highlights and meditates on Black life in relation-ship to space, social structures, and architecture through centering embodied practices. Their works have been performed nationally and internationally in spaces including Akademie der Künste, Berlin; Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto; Encuentro 19, Mexico; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Portland Institute of Contemporary Art; and Uni-versity of Arts, Zürich. They have exhi-bited work at the California College of the Arts; CCA Wattis Institute; Gallery 400, Chicago; and Woman Made Gallery, Chicago. They published their first book, Cotton Dreams, with Candor Arts in 2020.
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