Special Issue: World Premiere of Wired by Kinetic Light
Join us for the livestream on Saturday, May 7th + after-show celebration 🎉
Over the last seven months in my role as Organizer with the disability arts ensemble Kinetic Light, I have had the immense privilege of witnessing the rich and complex conversations about the company’s newest work, Wired. Tonight, this monumental work will have its world premiere at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
The piece is a meditation in sound, light, and movement on the gendered, racial, and disability stories of barbed wire in the United States, showing how this material shapes common understandings of who belongs. The show is an astounding model of disability aesthetics, interdisciplinary collaborations, and access artistry.
If you are in Chicago and scored one of the tickets to the show in-person, yay! If not, you can also experience the livestream premiere this Saturday, May 7th at 8pm CT. More info here.
Note: The livestream tickets are going fast. If they sell out, check back for information. MCA is working on a way to expand access past the capacity of Zoom meetings.
Celebrating Wired: A Post-Livestream Party | Saturday, May 7th 10-11:30pm CT
Please join us immediately following the livestream to celebrate the premiere. We will host a Zoom dance party, following the insights from the disability-centric REMOTE ACCESS party series, with DJ sets from Deaf Rave (DJs Troi “Chinaman” Lee & Jeffo), performances by Sky Cubacub (Rebirth Garments) and Willyum LaBeija (Royal House of LaBeija). We will have ASL, captions, sound descriptions, audio descriptions, access doula-ing by moira williams and Simon(e) van Saarloos, and a low-stim breakout room for reflection.
Hope to share remote space with you then!