The second documentary premiere of the Jeffrey Gibson Screening Series features Emily Johnson‘s new piece ‘The Ways We Love and The Ways We Love Better – Monumental Movement Toward Being Future Being(s)’ performed on and around Gibson’s monument installation, ‘Because Once You Enter My House It Becomes Our House.’
Johnson’s site-specific dance work stages pathways for regeneration, renewal and transformation. The performance begins with a gathering at the shore of the East River estuary with words from artist and activist Nataneh River, and then moves to ascend Gibson’s monument. ‘The Ways We Love…’ incorporates storytelling, invocation, movement, and light to illuminate Indigenous presence and the histories held in the parkland, which is situated in Lenapehoking – homeland of the Lenapeyok people. The evening culminates with the planting of tobacco, and the project continues spring 2021 with the planting of Sehsapsing corn seeds — a tribute to the future and a commitment to Lenape return.
The documentary premiere will be preceded by a Land Acknowledgment from the Indigenous Kinship Collective.
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Photo by Scott Lynch