HOMELAND
Film
6:37 total run time.
2016
Understanding homeland is a nonlinear journey. Homeland is a collaborative effort to honor and uphold connectivity to our ancestry by decoding the space that exists in the search for homeland. Contemplating the complex desire to return to a homeland, Homeland is an exercise in surfacing from spiritual and cultural erasure to imagine a return home to a decolonized land, body, and mind. We draw from what fragments of home remain with us to reconstruct a homeland within ourselves that transcends geography, space and time.
The concept of the piece was developed by myself and my two collaborators Chrystia Cabral (SPELLLING) and Aidan Jung. My role was the sole actor/choreographer whose self-directed performance created the visual narrative of the film, interpreting our concept through movement. Jung filmed the performance and edited the work. Following my filmed performance, Cabral created the score for the piece.
Funding: John F. Kennedy Center Grant for Emerging Artists
February 2018: Wander Woman at the Root Division SF, CA
September 2016: The Volkswagen Group of America
September 2016: Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C.
September 2016: The Volkswagen Group Headquarters in Herndon, Virginia
December 2016: The Dedalus Foundation in New York, New York
March 2016: Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York
June 2016: Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, Tennessee
June-September 2016: The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.