Next life, Dreaming: a conversation at Flux Factory
Wednesday, September 2, 2020
8:30 PM 10:00 PM

Zoom Link Sent upon Registration
Organizer: alyssa denay carter
www.nobodysfashionweek.com/alyssa-denay-carter

alyssa denay carter and Brittany J. Camacho have collaborated over the past five years as movers, thinkers, and friends.

"We found ourselves at Flux Factory this year through Nobody’s Fashion Week and where will I be buried*? It feels so generative that we’ve ended up at Flux Factory together. We want to revel in the opportunity to give deeper insight into ourselves, our shared practices, and what’s led us to share this artistic moment. Through interrogating our practices of creativity and care across space and time–our throughlines and convergences–we hope to demonstrate vulnerability and dream new worlds in live conversation. Please join us on September 2nd for a Zoom conversation."

A transcript of the conversation will be available following the live event. All proceeds for this event will be donated to support Black life and futurity.

Bios:
Born on St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, Brittany Jurene Camacho is a proud descendant and scholar of the African Diaspora. She is a library and cultural worker, dancer, and writer. Her work lies at the intersection of the preservation of memory and creation of shared, liberated futures. She explores Caribbean and Africana philosophy, circum-Caribbean history, literature, and environments, Blackness, representations and meanings of the body, performance, and world-building through Black queer resistance. Britt is guided and inspired by the ecstatic possibility of bringing worlds we have only dreamed of into being.

alyssa danay carter (she/her/hers) is an artist and birth worker. Her care work and creative practice are interrelated in their interrogation of life cycles and uphold modes of self-preservation and interdependency. alyssa’s work examines embodiment and performance of intersecting identities using weaving, fiber arts & integrated printmaking techniques. She weaves skins to be worn, exploring the concept of bodies rooted in spaces and places rooted in bodies—inherited cultural memory—joy, resilience, means of self-preservation, ancestral strength and knowledge. She is in conversation with her own, and others’, identity and the natural and human-made world around her.