Performing the Bronx: A Living Archive of NYC’s Most Iconic Borough
Date/Time: October 10, 2024 @ 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Location: BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance
2474 Westchester Avenue The Bronx, NY 10461
Artist Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful invites a group of remarkable Bronxites to co-develop actions embedded in the day-to-day of our beloved borough. The gestures that emerge are presented in private spaces, as well as in the Bronx's public realm, focusing on the roots that weave these visionaries with specific communities and neighborhoods.
Performing the Bronx is also representative of Nicolás’s interest in honoring, recovering and reclaiming herstories/histories/theirstories of the area’s inhabitants that run the risk of being effaced by time, lost in the midst of neighborhoods in flux, or dismissed by dominant discourses that often position themselves at the center of the conversation.
Featuring Bronx artists:
Arthur Avilés
Bill Aguado
Benny Bonilla
Mili Bonilla
Caridad De La Luz ‘La Bruja’
Dr. Drum
Ana ‘ROKAFELLA’ García
Reverend Danilo Lachapel
Wanda Salamán
Rhina Valentin
with Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel
Film was conceived and directed by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful with video filming and editing by Geoffrey Jones.
Notes:
This event is being co-presented with support from Historias, a multi-year programmatic initiative led by The Clemente in partnership with LxNY and supported by the Rauschenberg Foundation. Historias celebrates the transformative impact of Latinx communities in NYC through research, artistic interpretations, and public engagement.
The Performing the Bronx chapters have been supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the Bronx Council on the Arts. The Drumming for and with Benny chapter was produced with Casita Maria as part the South Bronx Culture Trail Festival 2020. Funding for editing this video compilation was provided by the University of Texas at Austin. Performing the Bronx has also received love, space and support from Mothers on the Move, The Andrew Freedman Home, and BAAD!