Exhibition
Closing Celebration: Mind Forged Manacles/Manacle Forged Minds
27 Jun 2023
Columbus Park
Brooklyn, United States
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Image: Fred Wilson, Mind Forged Manacles/Manacle Forged Minds, 2022, image by Kris Graves; Jonathan González, PRACTICE (2022), River to River Festival, The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; image by Julieta Cervantes.
Exhibition
Closing Celebration: Mind Forged Manacles/Manacle Forged Minds
27 Jun 2023
Regular hours
- Tue, 27 Jun
- 18:00 – 20:00
Free admission
Address
- Johnson Street
- Brooklyn
New York - 11201
- United States
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Join More Art as the gates of Fred Wilson's iron sculpture come down featuring a movement-based performance by artist Jonathan González.
About
Who is looking in? Who is looking out? Who is free? Who is trapped? Who has the power to decide who has the freedom to be inside and outside?
A performance by Jonathan González with Katrina Reid
Join More Art in celebration on Tuesday, June 27, from 6-8 pm at Columbus Park in Downtown Brooklyn for a movement-based performance by Jonathan González and Katrina Reid to mark the closing of Fred Wilson’s Mind Forged Manacles/Manacle Forged Minds. The performance will be followed by a community celebration with refreshments from Drive Change, a food truck and hospitality-centered fellowship program that supports formerly incarcerated young people and creates quality employment pathways to ensure their economic and emotional wellbeing.
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More Art has commissioned a captivating and thought-provoking performance by Jonathan González, exploring the complex questions of visibility, confinement, and authority in our society.
Through a dynamic collaboration between the performers—Jonathan González and Katrina Reid—and the AJ Iron Works fabrication team, who was responsible for originally constructing the welded steel gates that form the very structure of Wilson's artwork, the audience will witness a mesmerizing display of improvised movements.
The performance will take place in the midst of the de-installation process, symbolically representing the desired collapse of gates and barriers that hinder our freedom. As the de-installation crew actively dismantles the artwork, González and Reid will seamlessly interface with their actions. This interactive element will allow the audience to witness the transformative power of dismantling obstacles, both metaphorically and literally.
Jonathan González's performance invites reflection on societal boundaries, power dynamics, and the liberation that comes from breaking down barriers. Through the seamless integration of movement, sculpture, and de-installation, the audience will be immersed in a visually striking and intellectually stimulating exploration of freedom and visibility in our world.
