I’m spending this week with The Scarlet Tongue Project collective (TSTP)! We’re in the middle of our Boston residency, culminating with a show at the Dorchester Arts Project on Wednesday (tonight!), and collectively teaching a workshop on “Multilingual Anger” this Saturday at The Arts Equity Summit, where we’ll be in attendance Friday through Sunday.
I was recently saying to Samantha Bryan, the visionary who created this project, that I feel grateful to be a part of TSTP. At this moment in my career I’m shifting and changing a lot. I’ve been cocooning and largely standing out of the stage light I usually command, which though intentional is a difficult shift for me within my activity focus. How and where I perform my art is being redefined right now, as are the mediums I employ, and the style of interactions I have with my audience—when my art these days even requires me to be present in the first place. I’m finding footing in a new creative space after many years of being comfortable on stage. I’m redefining who I am, at the very least to myself.
My body is on a journey with testosterone, and my emergent sense of identity plays less and less on stage, showing up more in my personal experiences and finding voice in static art and installation. I feel estranged from the “character” persona I’ve professionally and publicly been linked to for the past 30 years. It’s a strange, depressing, interesting, vulnerable place to be.
I don’t know the world of museums, galleries, and other non-theater spaces I need to be finding. Amidst my upheavals and searching, The Scarlet Tongue Project has given me a way to keep pushing and utilizing the voice I have at this moment. Within our collective I’m challenged by, collaborated with, and cheered on by fellow artists. I’m able to create what I want and there’s a home, a show, and a deadline for me here to keep accountable to. There’s no expectation that I will turn out a piece I’ve done before, only interest in my artistic voice as it explores, and encouragement to question and to develop. Anything. Everything. What I want and need.
The artists performing tonight are spectacular and I’m a fan of each of them as creators, thinkers, activists, and as people. Come see us fill a space with manifestations of our experiences and drive. We are womyn+ who create, connected to and informed by our experiences of anger. Sometimes the root of anger is obvious and tempest in form, other times it’s the compost which grows a thing of peace and beauty. Anger is a meditation, a question, and always a conversation…
Please join us at 7pm. As our event lets out at 9:30, the moon will be reaching perfect fullness, and we’re ready for the next cycle. Understanding where we’ve been allows us to step into the new. Welcome Spring too, may the coming year be fertile after a season of breaking down what’s no longer needed.
Time & Location
March 20, 2019
7:00 PM doors – 9:30 PM
Dorchester Art Project: 1486 Dorchester Ave, Boston, MA 02122, USA
About the Event:
An evening of sneak peek film footage, interactive installation, gallery art, mixed-media performance art, and a project Q&A. We’re preparing something special for you and can’t wait to create an evening together utilizing your ideas, experiences of resistance, and presence too…
Be a part of the project: Tonight we’re joined by Mitzie Gibson, a photographer, who will be gathering portraits of womxn’s anger for a larger installation to be showcased for Scarlet Tongue later this year.
The Scarlet Tongue Project Artists Presenting:
Katia Tirado ~ (all the way from Mexico City) Performance Art
Cassandre Charles ~ Performance, Film, and Visual Art
Makiko Suda ~ (from Portland, Oregon) Live Drawing
Creature Karin Webb ~ Interactive Performance Installation, Film, Visual Art
Samantha Bryan ~ Film (and being the most badass producer alive)
with Local Guest Artists:
Pampi ~ Performance Art
Mitzie Gibson Photographer ~ Interactive Photography Installation
This event is BYOB, and entry is by donation: so come as you are, bring what you can, and settle in with us for a night of transformative art and idea sharing with some brilliant artistic minds.
Parking/Transportation: parking is on the street, and the entrance is a little tucked in, so keep your eyes open! If you don’t want to fuss with parking, the Fields Corner T stop on the redline is a one minute walk from the venue. We’ll have you out by 9:30, so no stress about missing the last train or getting to work in the morning.
Suggested donation for entry: $10 – $20
No one will be turned away for lack of funds
Play On My Friends, and I hope to see you tonight!
~ Creature
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