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Gender-Power

Help Maya Ciarrocchi, Kris Grey and their collaborators create Gender/Power!

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Help Maya Ciarrocchi, Kris Grey and their collaborators create Gender/Power!

Help Maya Ciarrocchi, Kris Grey and their collaborators create Gender/Power!

Help Maya Ciarrocchi, Kris Grey and their collaborators create Gender/Power!

Help Maya Ciarrocchi, Kris Grey and their collaborators create Gender/Power!

Maya Ciarrocchi
Maya Ciarrocchi
Maya Ciarrocchi
Maya Ciarrocchi
2 Campaigns |
New York, United States
$7,345 USD 76 backers
104% of $7,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
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Dear Friends, 

We are Maya Ciarrocchi and Kris Grey, two multi-disciplinary artists living and working in NYC.

Welcome to our IndieGoGo campaign!

We need your help to raise $7000, which will go towards the creation and presentation of our new project Gender/Power.

The first iteration of Gender/Power will be presented at the Gibney Dance Center in March 2015. The money we raise from this campaign will go directly towards paying the artists involved in this project for their incredible work and towards other production costs such as, space rental, marketing and administration. 

What is the Project?

Gender/Power is an immersive installation activated by live performance and audience participation.The content of the work is created in collaboration with individuals who have made specific decisions to disrupt or subvert gender signifiers. Focusing on embodiment, identity, and representation, the performers explore the dynamics of power in relationship to gender.

Gender/Poweris comprised of live performance within a projected environment. To create the elements of the work, participants collectively devise a series of questions on the subject of gender and authority. Each participant responds to the questions then exchange their responses with another group member who in turn recites this text on camera and in performance. These recordings, in combination with durational video portraits of the performers are projected in performance and as an autonomous installation.

Gender/Power is a working methodology that seeks to pose questions about actual and perceived gender. When the individuals in this piece claim the narratives of others, the social constructs of binary gender are destabilized exposing the artificiality of our assumptions regarding gesture, clothing, and other social signifiers that are used to define sex and power.

We see this work having several iterations, some performative with video components, others purely visual installation. We imagine the work could eventually incorporate the voices of individuals who do not appear in the performance and act as a template for future performances and workshops with alternate participants. Additionally we are working to create a catalog that includes stills, transcripts of table work, performance reviews and other documentation of our process as well as writings on the subject of gender and power collected from outside sources.

Who’s Involved

Maya Ciarrocchi (lead-artist) is a NYC-based artist whose work in video, photography, installation and performance addresses identity via documentation and durational portraiture. Recent projects include a meditative view of communities living in the coalfields of West Virginia and time-based portraits of formerly ultra-Orthodox Jewish individuals who transitioned to secular life. Her work has been exhibited in New York at: Anthology Film Archives, Chashama, the Chocolate Factory, Microscope Gallery, New York Live Arts, Sasha Wolf Gallery, among other institutions and at Artisphere, (VA) Hammer Museum (CA); Borderlines Film Festival (UK); Moving Pictures Festival (CAN). Residencies include the Kala Art Institute (CA), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (NY), and the Ucross Foundation (WY). She is the recipient of grants from the Jerome and Puffin Foundations. She has received Jeff and Bessie awards for her video scenography and has collaborated with choreographers and directors such as Wally Cardona, Ping Chong, David Cromer, Merce Cunningham, Kristin Marting, Bebe Miller and Donna Uchizono among many others. Ciarrocchi received her M.F.A. in Computer Art from the School of Visual Arts and her B.F.A. in Dance from SUNY Purchase. 

http://mayaciarrocchi.com

Kris Grey/Justin Credible (lead-artist) is a New York City based gender queer artist whose work exists at the intersection of communication, activism, community building, storytelling, lecture, and studio production in mediums two dimensional, three dimensional, and time based. Grey earned a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Maryland Institute College of Art and a Masters Degree in Fine Art from Ohio University. They perform, teach, and exhibit work internationally. Grey was a 2012 Fire Island Artist Residency recipient, the resident artist for the 2012 ANTI Festival for Contemporary Art in Kupoio, Finland, and a teaching artist in 2013 at The International Centre for Training in the Performing Arts in Brussels, Belgium.

http://kristingrey.com

Clarinda Mac Low (dramaturge) started out working in dance and molecular biology in the late 1980s and now works in performance and installation and creates participatory events of all types while simultaneously keeping up a practice of medical journalism, specializing in HIV/AIDS.  Her solo and collaborative works have appeared at P.S. 122, the Kitchen, X-Initiative, and many other places and spaces around New York City and elsewhere in the world, including a park in Siberia and the Manifesta Biennial in Spain. Recent work includes “Free the Orphans,” a project based aroundcreative work with unknown copyright holders; “The Year of Dance”, an anthropology of the NYC dance world, TRYST, performance interventions into everyday life; and "Cyborg Nation," public conversation on the technological body and the nature of intimacy. She has participated in many different residencies, including as a MacDowell Fellow (2000), a DTW ARM Fellow (2004-2005), through the Society for Cultural Exchange in Pittsburgh and as a guest at Yaddo (2012) and Mount Tremper Arts (2012).  She has received a BAXTEN Award in 2004, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant, 2007 and a 2010 Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art grant. Mac Low is co-Founder of Culture Push, a cross-disciplinary organization encouraging hands-on participation and strong hybrid ideas. She has a BA in Dance and Molecular Biology from Wesleyan University and an MFA in Digital and Interdisciplinary Arts Practice from the City College of New York-CUNY.

Becca Blackwell (performer/collaborator) is a NYC-based performer.  Most recently, Becca has collaborated with Young Jean Lee’s Theatre Company, Half Straddle, Jennifer Miller’s Circus Amok, Theater of the Two- Headed Calf, Sharon Hayes, Michelle Handelman, and Erin Markey.  Becca is a regular on the web series’ Gays Anatomy; 2010 New York Television Festival’s Best Web Series Jack In A Box and Outtakes.

James Tigger! Ferguson (performer/collaborator) Known as "The Original King of Boylesque" and "The Godfather of Neo-Boylesque”.  He is a Stripperformance Artist/Actor/Dancer who has performed in New York and abroad since 1988. A Pioneer in the 90s burlesque revival, Tigger! has been stripping since 1992 and remains a leading influence in the international scene. He won the first ever King of Boylesque title at the Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas 2006 and several Golden Pastie Awards, including "Most Likely to Get Shut Down by the Law" and "Most Unpredictable Performer”. He has acted in Shakespeare, Apollinaire, Wedekind, Horváth, Williams and numerous original works with Taylor Mac, Julie Atlas Muz and other geniuses. Has performed in: Australia, Italy, Portugal, France, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Hungary, Cyprus, England, Scotland, Ireland, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Mexico, Canada and all around the U.S.

http://tiggertiger.com

What We Need & What You Get

It’s crazy how much money goes into creating a work of art. Many of us work for free or for very little, yet we work because we must. It is important to us that our collaborators, the amazing Becca Blackwell, Clarinda Mac Low and Tigger! are paid a fair wage for their efforts. Not only does this help them buy groceries but it also helps them continue with their own work.

The amount of time and effort that goes to the administrative side of art making is ongoing and never-ending. Your support in addition to paying our performers will help us pay for the administrative support of an arts manager.

We’ve put together some super cool perks to help sweeten the deal.  Check them out!

Risks & Challenges

Gender/Power will be created and performed regardless if it is successfully funded. However, if it is not funded we will need to cut rehearsal and administrative costs which in turn may prevent the work from reaching its full potential.

If we reach our $7000 goal we will be able to pay our collaborators a modest wage and be able to afford administrative help.

If we raise $8000 we will be able to afford a two-camera documentation set up.

If we raise $10,000 we will be able to pay our collaborators a higher wage and print 200 copies of a limited edition catalog.

All of your contributions allow for us to focus more fully on the work and our practice, which ultimately makes our work more available to you!

Thank you for your support!

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$50 USD
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$100 USD
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Catalogue Thanks!

$500 USD
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$1,000 USD
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