Zinzi Minott: Black on Black

Zinzi Minott: Black on Black
Thu 9 Jun 18.30-19.30, Fri 10 Jun 18.30-19.30
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Gateshead Quays
South Shore Road
Gateshead
Tyne and Put on
NE8 3BA
Admission: Tickets £5, concessions £3. Reserving important

Floor-breaking dancer, filmmaker and activist Zinzi Minott performs Black on Black a solo dance efficiency that explores queerness, blackness and the body as an archive. The work has been commissioned by Ongoing as element of the Steady Community programme for 2021/22 and will arrive to Gateshead as section of an ambitious tour of 4 British isles metropolitan areas, coming to Glasgow, Nottingham and Liverpool in Spring 2023.

Black on Black sees Zinzi Minott interrogate dance as a form of labour and the limitations of the physique by way of the exhausting procedures of repetition and period. The 1 hour solo performance has been established from motion phrases donated to Zinzi by an prolonged network of Black dancers and artists.

Zinzi Minott describes “My perform explores the link concerning dance, bodies and politics and Black on Black appears to be like at the ancestral narrative handed down and evoked throughout generations of Black and Queer life, expressed by way of physical overall performance. I’m psyched to consider my solo exhibit on the highway and tour Black on Black with Ongoing Network. If you could think about a bodily archive of dance, what nugget or phrase would you donate?”

In Black on Black, the two dance and blackness are archived bodily, handed from body to overall body to kind a physical archive of Black and Queer lineage. What if movement, handed on and shared, is the embodied language of Black life across generations and geolocations? Most likely the overall body by itself, and a shared physical vocabulary, is the most tangible archive for remembering Black life and histories. Dance’s ephemerality is a tactic of resistance. As Minott performs her solo, her phrases are altered, eroded by exhaustion, mirroring the ever-transforming and constantly vulnerable existence of the archive.

The do the job will make basic the fallible character of the entire body, of the archive, of overall performance and of blackness, all issue to forces of erasure. For individuals who can’t capture the stay functionality, there will be a video installation of Black On Black demonstrated by the remainder of June. Minott will accomplish her solo amidst a multi-monitor audio-visual installation consisting of archival footage and other accompanying substance from her particular picture selection, with a newly commissioned rating composed by Gaika.

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