MEDIATHEK

Conjuring is a video score developed within the frame of the "Trans Practice" project initiated by elena rose light.

The video is intended to be experienced within the context of an online zine, a platform where various outcomes from the artist's residency in STUDIO2 are brought together, creating a cohesive artistic work.
The title of the zine is gender euphoria - a trans dance practice and can be accessed here.

Description of the score:

"Build an altar with whatever materials are available to you to call in the tran-cestors you want to dialogue with. Then, dance for them. Find an ending for your dance, and sit or lie down. Listen for their response."

More about the residency in Studio 2:
"My name is elena. I use they/them pronouns and was born and raised in Southern California’s occupied Chumash lands. I am white, trans, and nonbinary. I work with body-based practices to create performance situations that hopefully begin to shift some of Western culture’s embedded social structures. At STUDIO2, I’m excited to continue my research into what a “trans practice” might be, using their media archive to identify queer survival strategies within performance. I plan to write a series of scores out of this research. For now, I’m just excited to see where it goes!"

More about the "Trans Practice" project:

How is transness already a disruption with cishetero, patriarchal choreographies of the body? This research project culminated in a series of scores for singing/moving/ritualizing, developed through casual studio visits with friends of the artists. The research project is ongoing and proposes to continue building a body of movement scores that document trans life and the practices that these lives engender. 

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