CLOSING DAY EVENTS
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Performances by Mrs. Muscle, Kym Bernazky, and Zoe Map and Closing Reception with performances by Erin Ko, Chanel Matsunami Govreau, & Kanami Kusajima
1-3 PM Embrace Yourself With Ms. Muscle In an interactive performance, Ms. Muscle takes to heart the Whitney Houston lyrics, “Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.” Ms. Muscle will guide participants through exercises designed to enjoy their uniqueness and empower them to be their Biggest and Breast self!
3:30-4:30 Zoe Map and Kym Bernazky
re•turn - when you turn to art you return - Zoe Map
In this stage vision, the artist becomes an actor of life, where human emotions are suspended and spiritual practices are the only way to dominate ego and instinct for a deeper awakening.
The fragile ecosystem, human supremacy, and the dark subject will be represented by repetition, merciful compassion, and empathy for the idealistic clumsiness of human life.
Metamorphosis of the continuing movement challenging the human condition, often overwhelmed, stuck, and disconnected from the surrounding; deeply represented by the voiceless body that poetically is ‘the dancer’. Are we still Alive or did some of us die without realizing it? The answer to this cosmic question gravitates through the spectator's perspective and interpretation of re•turn.
The Long Black Veil - Kym Bernazky is an artist living with the genetic marker for Huntington’s Disease. Though she’s not yet showing symptoms, The Long Black Veil explores the space between life and death and learning how to accept our shared fate. Even with the knowing that death hangs over us like a blanket. We exist side by side with death and still have the bravery to live on. This piece represents the space and time between life and death, the unknown and unknowing of that discombobulation. Humanity continues to bravely march/slither/dance on. The viewer and the performer are both important parts of the performance. The space in between them also represents that void between life and death. Much like the space between performer and audience comes alive when the audience begins to interpret/react/feel.
5-6 PM Chanel Matsunami Govreau
Infinity Apple" delves into the meditative act of cutting an apple. The artist attempts to peel the skin off in one continuous piece, honoring their Japanese mother's gestures of love through precise fruit cutting. Wrestling with the challenge of emulating their mother's dexterity as a second-generation mixed Japanese American, the artist reflects on the significance of this cyclical act, affirming acts of love beyond Western expressions of physical affection.
Enhanced by a live microphone that amplifies the cutting, the experience immerses both the artist and the audience in the rhythmic and intimate process. Through the action of apple cutting, the artist confronts life's beginning, middle, and end—a reflection on the passage of time and the inevitable loss of the artist’s mother. As the blade slices through the apple's skin, the audience is encouraged to consider the fragility and transience of existence, preparing themselves for the eventual departure of a loved one or mourning a loss already endured.
6-8 PM Performances Erin Ko & Kanami Kusajima
Kanami Kusajima: Let Hair Down is Kusajima’s handle as a street performer. She combines interpretive improvisation dance and abstract sumi (=Japanese calligraphy ink) painting in one performance.
Erin Ko: Erin Ko and friends perform songs, spoken word, and a ritual from The Verse, Ko’s experimental mixed reality mystic rock opera. https://www.erinkostudios.com/sm9stwfm/
I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU: Alison Clancy (music & dance) and La Galli (music)
Salvadoran Bronx- based artist, La Galli experiments across a diverse range of artistic mediums, giving melodies to her stories in song.
Ceremony - A Healing Space For Personal And Community Care
Rebecca KellyG, known for transcendent performances, uses her voice as a conduit for liberation and love. Weaving intricate harmonies into lush soundscapes, she invites listeners to tune into the wisdom of their hearts, find steadiness in their minds, and embrace the potency of love-rooted justice, accountability, self-compassion, and community care. Along with the compositions, Rebecca incorporates guided meditation, intuitive movement, self-reflection, and activations on aligning actions with values for a more just and equitable world.
Love always,
Open Gallery Performance
In keeping with the EWB 2024 theme “I will always love you,” 'Love always,' is a love letter to the next generations. Grammy nominated singer/ artist / mother, Priya Darshini and dancer/ researcher/ artist/ mother Coco Karol, along with their children and Grammy nominated/ father, Max ZT, come together to create a performance using dance, music, and choreographic sound objects to reflect on the power of care to dismantle the legacies of trauma we refuse to pass down to our children.
tokissme (Performance Art - music)
The things we carry with us from childhood are often purely emotional, but some of our keepsakes are physical, too. “tokissme” is an homage to all those physical reminders of childhood through an ode to my childhood bear, Kissme. Through the universal language of music, I hope to rekindle everyone's love of their childhood toys with a love letter to my own.
Talisman Workshop
Join our Talisman-making workshop! Make one to hang in support of the Biennial and one to take home. Assemble your own small work of art using a variety of recycled materials and add your Talisman to the installation our 2024 EWB artists made as a “love letter” to the Biennial. Inspiration guided by our own Artistic Director, Eddy Segal. Materials generously provided by Materials For The Arts. Appropriate for all ages.
shimmer small anemones (Interactive Performance)
Shimmer small anemones are an interactive inflatable architecturural performance and installation. They are life-sized inflatable anemones that giggle, squeal, and sing to their audience, dance with you, and may invite you to step inside!
shimmer team
director/producer: cari ann shim sham*
performers | Demetris Charalambous & Karsen Tengan
inflatable | design & creation: Mary Hale
Voices from the Village Underground
Open Gallery Performance
Enjoy a taste of the West Village’s underground poetry and music scene with live performances from emerging female & gender expansive artists who perform at the Music Inn Open Mic Nights on West 4th St. Audience members will be encouraged to respond and participate in collaborative creative community by contributing to a collective poem which will be shared at the end of the night.
Open Gallery Performance: The Leech House Series with Ryder Cooley
Open Gallery Performance
The Leech House Series with Ryder Cooley
Durational blood-letting solo performance with Hirudu medicinal leeches.
The Leech House Series is a symbiotic transference ritual whereby the human parasite becomes guardian host to the hermaphroditic leech, inviting the leech to feast upon and cleanse the blood with hirudin venom and gender-neutralizing verve.
Drawing Blood | Drawing the Body TICKETED EVENT
Ticketed Event
Drawing Blood | Drawing the Body with Ryder Cooley an Every Woman Biennial X Leech House Collaboration
Come spend two hours drawing with us…drawing blood that is! Ryder Cooley’s bloodletting bio-performance art sets the stage for a unique sketching experience. Please note, this is real blood and if you are squeamish, this is not for you. Also note, that these leeches are pets, well-cared for, and well-fed, and not harmed in any way during this performance.
The Leech House Series is a symbiotic transference ritual whereby the human parasite becomes guardian host to the hermaphroditic leech, inviting the leech to feast upon and cleanse the blood with hirudin venom and gender-neutralizing verve.
Open Gallery Performance: The Leech House Series with Ryder Cooley
Open Gallery Performance
The Leech House Series with Ryder Cooley
Durational blood-letting solo performance with Hirudu medicinal leeches.
The Leech House Series is a symbiotic transference ritual whereby the human parasite becomes guardian host to the hermaphroditic leech, inviting the leech to feast upon and cleanse the blood with hirudin venom and gender-neutralizing verve.
Year Of Women Book Launch
La MaMa Galleria and The Every Woman Biennial are thrilled to present a year of exhibitions by women and nonbinary artists. Come celebrate our Year Of Woman Book Launch with us.
Pocket Lady
Open Gallery Performance
“Pocket Lady” is from a childhood memory, a woman with a skirt of pockets came to my grade school, the pockets were filled with small toys and we got to choose one. In my version, I ask people to make a wish, a wish they really believe in.
Be Your Biggest and Breast Self!
Open Gallery Performance
With her sculpted breast shaped biceps, Ms. Muscle welcomes visitors to the Every Woman Biennial opening. She applauds the strength of women ad encourages everyone o be their “biggest and breast self.”
+The Opening
Come celebrate with us! With over 200 artists on view, there’s something for everyone.
Come grab a drink, mingle, and enjoy a few Biennial-style surprises. Performances by Gaia Music Collective, Tamara Wyndham, and Barbara Lubliner. Plan to get there early as the line is usually long. The event is free but donations are welcome! Suggested donation $20 - we will have QR Codes available on site.