Art Share L.A. Presents: A Common Thread Performances

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Join us May 13th from 6PM-9PM for Art Share L.A. Presents: A Common Thread performances!

Featuring:

Heidi Duckler Dance performing Every Day is Different

Katie Shanks + Stephanie Sherwood performing Meat Market

Every Day is Different

With a voluminous yellow skirt a dancer circumnavigates her body around different states of being. The haegeum, a traditional Korean string instrument, connects the ancient and the modern, the translucent and the opaque, the body and and its desire to both root and rise.

Heidi Duckler Dance creates place-based performances that transform non-traditional spaces, providing learning opportunities and engaging diverse communities, in the belief that the arts can change our vision of the world and of ourselves.

Meat Market is a series of collaborative works between Los Angeles artists Katie Shanks and Stephanie Sherwood. Trained in traditional painting, their joint practice has travelled off the canvas into sculpture, immersive installation, fashion, and performance. The Meat Market collection took their mutual fascination with meat (academic and aesthetic as vegetarians) a little closer to the flesh. In our society, flesh is fetishized—whether the word refers to a cut of meat or a woman’s body. Meat Market began as an empowering series of wearable art objects taking the derogatory notion of a body as meat to consume, and transforming it into something beautiful, powerful and enigmatic. An excerpt from the larger performance piece of Meat Market—On the Cutting Board, Weaving Webs and Catching Flies features Shanks as a spinning spider and Sherwood as the stoic fly. Set to a recorded reading of contemporary feminist writer Rebecca Solnit's essay Grandmother Spider (from the collection Men Explain Things to Me), it follows a thread of thought examining themes of female lineage and erasure, and the consumption and confinement of femme-read bodies by our society.

These performances are presented in association with the exhibition A Common Thread, an exhibition featuring fiber-based and textile works of art exploring autobiography and social critique, connection and displacement. The artworks in this exhibition are interlinked through themes of history and memory.

Featured artists include:

Antoinette Adams

Amabelle Aguiluz

Doris Bittar

A. Laura Brody

Chloe Cusimano

Yasmine Nasser Diaz

Debra Disman

Carmen Mardonez

Carolyn Mason

Michelle Montjoy

Marie-Jose Njoku-Obi

Katie Shanks

Aneesa Shami Zizzo