In Residence February 18 – February 26, 2024 and September 23 – October 18, 2024
In moving and static images, director Charlotte Brathwaite in collaboration with visual artist Malick Welli , imagine the dreams and nightmares of the forcibly enslaved and displaced in Forgotten Paradise , a series of films, ritual performances, and photography tracing ancestral lineage across the Trans-Atlantic slave route. An ongoing series of works created in West Africa, the Caribbean and the United States.
Joining Brathwaite and Welli in-residency will be composer, Tareke Ortiz , dramaturg, composer, & writer, Sunder Ganglani , and artist, puppeteer, & educator, Greg Corbino .
The artists will spend their time in-residence connecting the questions of Forgotten Paradise with the East End area & communities. They will create images and ritual performances in collaboration with their Community Thought Partners: Dr. Georgette Grier-Key & Eastville Historical Society, Brenda Simmons & Southampton African American Museum, and Donnamaire Barnes & Sylvester Manor Educational Farm.
This residency is in partnership with New York Live Arts (NYLA).
