Hard Work:
Joiri Minaya and
Marisa Williamson

Sunset Slit
Joiri Minaya
7 PM

Joiri Minaya emulates the image of a woman emerging from water and whipping her hair back. Usually presented in a still or slowed down form, this pop-culture image carries a tired narrative that builds fantasies of leisure and pleasure from the cliché pairing of women and idyllic landscapes. By reproducing this idealized gesture over and over again in the incongruous, almost opposite context of Skowhegan NYC, she attempts to create a space where meaning can be transformed through the absurd and the pointlessly laborious.

Sunset Slit is part of a body of work that deals with otherness, self-consciousness, and displacement, and specifically addresses how the people and environments of the tropical regions have been historically exoticized by others, and the subsequent internalization and re-performing of those fantasies by the subjects in which they originate in the first place.

Workout with Sally Hemings
Marisa Williamson
8:30 PM

Sally Hemings is Marisa Williamson’s perennial personal, a slave and mistress of Thomas Jefferson who leads the audience in an energizing and enlightening workout. Sally Hemings and her SolidaritySquad team composed by artist Jesus Benavente and Kathy Cho creates a full-body, and fun routine, focusing on strength, endurance, affect, and labor.

“Tone that butt! Flatten those abs! Whittle away or build up your body! Your socioeconomic mobility depends on it! Together we’ll explore work and the embodiment of fitness in our culture and over time. With this routine…tyranny and oppression of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.” —Thomas Jefferson