I. HICKORY – Saturday, September 28th | 2:45 PM
II. CHESTNUT – Saturday, October 5th | 2:45 PM
III. OAK – Saturday, October 12th | 2:45 PM
Location: RU House at Colonels Row, Building #404B on Governors Island
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I. HICKORY is the first of three performances honoring the ecological legacies of the trees on Governors Island. What messages are hiding in the hickories? 2024 VoM artist Tanika I. Williams, in collaboration with interdisciplinary artist Dana Jackson invite participants to witness the use of hickory dye and henna on cotton textile in a performance of mothering, meaning-making, and masking.
*Limited to 16 attendees – RSVP Here*
II. CHESTNUT is the second ceremony for the trees. What did the woods sound like before the death of the chestnuts? Blight killed 4 billion American chestnut trees. 2024 VoM artist Tanika I. Williams, in collaboration with sound and installation artist Colby Lamson-Gordon, lead a collective meditation imagining the sounds of lost forests.
*Limited to 18 attendees – RSVP Here*
III. OAK is the third and final ceremony for the trees. Our world is built on the bark of oaks. Through play and performance, 2024 VoM artist Tanika I. Williams, in collaboration with mixed media artist Sika Foyer, explore the strength of oak fiber and how it binds diverse peoples and our collective histories together.
*Limited to 16 attendees – RSVP Here*
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About
Tanika I. Williams is one of the selected artists for the 2024 Voices of Multiplicity (VoM) III Artist Residency Program. Tanika I. Williams (b. St. Andrew, Jamaica; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) is an award-winning filmmaker and performance artist. She investigates women’s use of movement, mothering, and medicine to produce and pass on the ancestral wisdom of ecology, spirituality, and liberation. Williams holds a BA from Eugene Lang College, New School, and an MDiv from Union Theological Seminary. Her films have been screened in national and international festivals and broadcast on American television. Williams has been awarded fellowships and residencies at NYU Tisch School, New York Foundation for the Arts, Hi-ARTS, Cow House Studios, MORE Art, and BRIC. Her additional awards and appearances include En Foco Media Arts Fund, 99.5 WBAI, Art in Odd Places, Creative Time, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Civic Art Lab, GreenspaceNYC, Let Us Eat Local, Just Food, and Performa.
Click here to read about the 2024 Voices of Multiplicity (VoM) III Artist Residency Program.
The 2024 VoM III Artist Residency Program is supported by The Brooklyn Public library (BPL) and the Roman Foundation.
RU is grateful for the partnership with Governors Island Arts.
