Raymond Pinto, Documentation of what is left, if I am earth (work in progress), 2021. Archival photographs by the artist, dimensions variable.
what is left, if I am earth
A performance by Raymond Pinto and Fana Fraser
Wednesday, July 14 at 2pm ET
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what is left, if I am earth is a performance by Raymond Pinto and a collaboration with Fana Fraser. The performance will feature Fraser performing in CUE’s gallery space while Pinto joins her remotely via video, with recorded songs by London-based musician Klein as a musical score. They will examine notions of longing as it intersects with Black queer experiences through improvised and experimental movement, as well as using organic materials such as geodes. what is left, if I am earth will be livestreamed for an audience on CUE’s website.
If you have access questions or needs, please contact info@cueartfoundation.org (ideally with at least 48 hours before the event) and we will do our best to accommodate you.
what is left, if I am earth is presented in conjunction with the group exhibition, In Longing, curated by Anna Cahn.
As an artist, Raymond Pinto mixes disciplines of movement and distills remnants of gestures that attend to non-locality. Most recently, they are concerned with a notion of bodilessness. Their research investigates the statehood of having no body. The transmogrification of internal experiences crystalizes to form critical choreographic dispositions rendering fragments of intimacy, abjection, and stick-to-it-iveness. Off the beat, Raymond enjoys DJing, cooking, and reading science fiction novels by Samuel R. Delany.
Fana Fraser is an artist, performer, and full spectrum doula in training. Her creative work is rooted in a contemporary Caribbean aesthetic and framed by narratives of eroticism, power, and compassion. A 2021-22 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow in Dance and 2021-22 Performance AIRspace Resident at Abrons Arts Center, Fana was shortlisted for the 2020 BCLF Elizabeth Nunez Caribbean-American Writers’ Prize. Her live performance work has been presented at several venues including Brooklyn Museum, Gibney, and Trinidad Theatre Workshop. She served as Rehearsal Director for Ailey II from 2016-20 and currently works as a co-director for South Bronx-based arts organization, Pepatián. Fana has taught as a guest artist in dance programs at University of the Arts, Adelphi University, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Sarah Lawrence College, University of Georgia at Athens, and Appalachian State University. As a dancer she has worked with Camille A. Brown & Dancers, Raja Feather Kelly, Ryan McNamara, Andrea Miller for Hermès, Sidra Bell Dance New York, The Francesca Harper Project, The Metropolitan Opera, and Ailey II. An Honors graduate of the Ailey/Fordham BFA Dance Program, Fana was born and raised on Kairi, in Trinidad and Tobago, and began her dance training at Caribbean School of Dancing. fanafraser.com