Ayana Evans / Courtesy photo
The Inverse Performance Art Festival will go digital for 2020.
The three-day event is hosted by the Momentary in partnership with the Harold J. Miossi Art Gallery at Cuesta College. Performances are scheduled for Nov. 13-15 and will include a series of works and conversations with artists working in material, movement, and time-based practices.
Performers include NYC artist Ayana Evans, California’s Lena Chen and Michael Charles Neumann, Chicago-based artist Marcela Torres, and nine others, including Fayetteville’s own Lela Besom.
From the organizers:
Now, more than ever” and “unprecedented times” are phrases that have exponentially multiplied in the year 2020. As we continue to ask ourselves “why” – why now, why this, why anything, we have kept coming back to this phrase, “why not?”
In the absence of in-person gatherings, INVERSE chose to focus our 2020 efforts on intimate spaces of dialogue and conversation. In a time of so much uncertainty, we dug in to what we knew – how to have a conversation, how to hold space for questions, how to feel close to one another. We have so much to learn from the medium of performance – it is the very act of engaging with our problems, with our environment. It leads us to solutions.
Registration is free, and includes updates leading up to the festival.
Festival Schedule
Friday, Nov. 13
5-6 p.m. CST: Performance by Ayana Evans on the Momentary’s Instagram Live
7—8 p.m. CST: Conversation with Milk & Honey on Zoom
8—9 p.m. CST: Performance by Marcela Torres on Twitch Co-presented with Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska
Saturday, Nov. 14
11 a.m.—12 p.m. CST: Conversation with Jessica Blinkhorn on Zoom
1—2 p.m. CST: Conversation with Tsedaye Makonnen on Zoom
3—4 p.m. CST: Conversation with Shawn Escarciga on Zoom
4:30—5:30 p.m. CST: Performance by Lena Chen & Michael Charles Neumann on Zoom
Sunday, Nov. 15
11 a.m.—12 p.m. CST: Conversation with Lela Besom on Zoom
1—2 p.m. CST: Conversation with Lela Welch & Ana Sofía Camarga on Zoom
3—4 p.m. CST: Conversation with Sichong Xie on Zoom
