An Offering to Past and Future Ancestors
The Performing Diaspora residency at CounterPulse returned this year with two works mapping the connection between ancestry, queer identity, and tradition asking, ‘How do we collaborate with the force of the unseen? How we can transcend the toxins flowing in our bodies and societies?’ The residency creates a platform for artists of color to tell their own stories across time, without boundaries or borders. This years artists included Mother the Verb, a collective of three femmes, Javier Stell-Fresquez, Davia Spain,