Marking

Marking delves into women’s–both cis and trans–desire for self-definition, validation, and agency. Harnessing often undervalued, feminine-coded capacities for listening, collaboration, and mutual-support as an act of resistance, Mark/Meaning works to affirm women as artists and agents whose experiences cannot and should not be dismissed. In the first year of the project, Mann and Wright will facilitate a series of performances, participatory workshops and community discussions. At Building Five, one such event will fully-span, emphasize, and utilize all dimensions of the space, making it an integral part of the work; content in dialogue with container. Inside B5’s vaulted ceilings, under clerestory windows, and filling its liminal atmosphere, the artists utilize otherworldly imagery: an altered piano spinning as it is played, its casters creating calligraphy as they roll across a salt-covered floor; inked piano hammers mark a giant paper scroll with each note, generating a map for movement. Body-mics amplify heartbeats, breath, and movement as part of the soundscape.