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About Currently Speaking:
The Currently Speaking series hosts experts in various contemporary art genres and media to encourage casual discourse and meaningful interactions between our community, speakers, and the art they showcase. All series events are free to the public. No reservation is required, and the gallery will be open beforehand for viewing the current exhibition. Refreshments will be served.
The Currently Speaking series hosts experts in various contemporary art genres and media to encourage casual discourse and meaningful interactions between our community, speakers, and the art they showcase. All series events are free to the public. No reservation is required, and the gallery will be open beforehand for viewing the current exhibition. Refreshments will be served.
A communal response session with professional dancer and singer Polly Motley.
In response to Neon National Anthem (Red) by Nicholas Galanin, The Current is hosting a communal response session with professional dancer and singer Polly Motley. There are a myriad of possible cathartic responses to the work's prompt "scream until we can't breathe," screaming being only one of them. Soothing lullabies, sounds of sorrow, or voices of anger are other possibilities. Motley will lead this hour-long response session in the gallery by gently preparing our voices to create, as a group, a "new national anthem."
The session will begin with a guided preparation that includes breath, voice, and body work that is accessible to all. The preparation is designed to foster comfort and confidence in the group as well as in our own voices. Each person's voice will be encouraged and respected as it is expressed simultaneously with other voices. Silence will also be welcome.
