QUEERING ECOLOGIES: ROT edition
Friday, Feb 21
1 - 5 pm
@ Joe Goode Annex
$45
email freshreg753@gmail.com for low income sliding scale

This is a collage, a quilt, a portal, a spell. This is not a contact jam or compositional improvisation jam. This is a space where queer energies and potentialities explore, expand, take off!! In this open-ended collaboration we will co-create, synthesize, cry in the corner, decompress, dance like nobody's watching, perform for no one, perform for each other, co-conspire and challenge what is polite. 

We will make art. 

We will collectively perform world-making, space shaping, composting, and dissolve.

 We will leave behind memories and maps for future convergence. 
This is fantasy and fiction and something in-between.

Logistics: 

1p-5p 
bring a lunch and snacks to share

1p-2p: warm-up + circle time

2-3:30p ITS SHOW TIME BABY
3:30p-5pm debrief and clean up<3 

1. We will make a mess together and we will clean up our mess together

2. I will provide some costumes, textiles, props to play with, a speaker, a camcorder, and art supplies. 

BUT>>> plzzz bring  your own costumes, props, materials, instruments, poetry, an idea, your favorite song, etc.

3. We will begin in collective decision making and process, building a manifesto together, creating roles, setting intentions for the space, and naming desires.

4. We will end holding hands and holding each other in discussion and aftercare.

I am sourcing inspiration for space holding from my teachers and my teachers teachers, Kathleen Hermesdorf, Keith Hennessey, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Sara Shelton Mann, Abby Crain, Isabel Lewis, the Architects, Tommy DeFrantz, José Esteban Moñoz (Cruising Utopia).

This jam will be held by ainsley elizabeth tharp and Kevin Lo

ainsley e. tharp’s work is experimental, feminine but not very ladylike, fixated on failure as protest, and informed by improvisation as play, impermanence as study, and mess making as necessity. She is an interdisciplinary artist and witch working in between and with fringe subcultures rooted in the Bay Area. Her work is inspired by antiracism, proto feminism, and anarchist principles and practices. ainsley’s artistic background is in the field of experimental dance, visual art, video art, and projection design.  She works towards creating and organizing low-income accessible art access spaces in the Bay Area. She is currently organizing and teaching with the ˈɡaT͟H(ə)riNGs class series with her collaborator gizeh muñiz vengel a community run donation based dance class series.  She is also a part of the curatorial & organizational team for ROT 2025 (formally known as FRESH) a festival the centers queerness, QTBIPOC, and also prioritizes donation based access to workshops and performances.