care/stamina

Directed by Hope Mohr and hosted by BOXBLUR at Catharine Clark Gallery with dancers Karla Quintero and Melissa Lewis Wong. Sound artist Zachary James Watkins. Followed by an artist talk with Arleene Correa Valencia in conversation with Favianna Rodriguez.

Thursday, July 17
Doors open: 5:45
Event begins: 6:00
Artist talk: 7:45
The event is free

care/stamina is a performance installation and a slow-moving sculpture in which two dancers share weight, touch, vulnerability, and stillness. Directed by Hope Mohr in collaboration with dancers Karla Quintero and Melissa Lewis Wong and sound artist Zachary James Watkins, care/stamina is performed within the exhibition of work by Arleene Correa Valencia titledCodice del Perdedor/The Losing Man’s Codexat the Catharine Clark Gallery.

In the words of artist Arleene Correa Valencia:

"I love the idea of having to work together to hold each other. My work is very much about the balance between visibility and invisibility. I think a lot about ways in which we carry each other even when the other isn’t visible or present. The bodies fight to exist together and apart. "

In the words of choreographer Hope Mohr:

"This work offers an embodied expression of care as a stamina practice. This can look like a sustained difficult hold, a walk holding hands, or humming into someone's ear. There are so many different ways to touch another person. Touch can be a form of sanctuary. Inside this sanctuary, so much is possible."