To Life's Thread
- Nava Waxman
- Aug 25
- 1 min read
This collaborative research project between looks at themes of memory, continuance, land, embodied gestures, and resisting systems of imperial dominance. Mainly using materials of clay, dyed threads, sand, text, and water, we contemplate the recuperative gestures available through historical consciousness and re-embodiment.
Shannon Garden-Smith \ Nava Messas Waxman \ Angel Callander
Culminating in two documented performance works and a collaborative installation, each of us brings our own concerns and resonances with these overarching themes, ultimately revealing how they are all connected. The first collaborative performance feeds into the second, wherein the first involved hand- spinning wool, recently dyed with achiote and henna pigments, into threads that would be used to trace patterns along the buried Ziibiing river under Philosopher’s Walk. -Angel Callander
