The Switching
A Workshop Series With Jumatatu Poe
November 17 – 4pm-7pm, And November 18-20 – 6pm-9pm
Full Workshop Early Bird $75-100 (Until Oct 17) // Full Workshop After Oct 17 $100-125 // Drop In $20-35 (Drop Ins Only Allowed Sun + Mon)
I like to imagine that this practice in performance improvisation, The Switching, is a strategy in immediate evolution, rapid-fire shifting, sublime learning of and in the moment. I began this practice while dealing with my curiosities around a question I obsessed over: “Can I change myself?”
Our practice will deal with strategic essentialization – through the immediate re-design of ourselves into other creatures, or other ways of being our innate creatures – and working with immediately identifying the restrictions/limitations that are inescapable. It’s round about, and ideally will come full circle.
Now, in this moment, it’s circle/curve through my distals, and my distals
are everywhere, and my desire travels in orbits, in cycles, and my vision is a limb.
And now, in this moment, my vision is a limb, and I am comprised of everything
that I can sense that I cannot see, and I am composed of the same
material all throughout my body, and my voice is flat.
And now, in this moment, my voice is flat, and my rhythmic is insistently
percussive, and my organs erupt to propel me into movement, and
then they recompose themselves, and I am responsible for all of the sound I can
hear, and I am feeling overwhelmed at all of my responsibility, and my
eroticism desire is piercing through my pores.
For me, there is something deeply spiritual about it, something confusing, something humbling/humiliating about it. I feel like it has theoretical links to code switching, especially as it has to do with my Blackness and queerness, experiences of immediate compartmentalization/contextualization as a defense mechanism, as a means of survival.