Lull, lulla, lullen is a weekly installment of collaborative performances that draw upon the lullaby—songs that have served to soothe and express worry, while also passing down cultural knowledge. In response to insomnia, vivid dreams, nightmares, and restless sleep, the lullaby acts as a prompt for caring for one another while sharing narratives of resistance, resilience, loss, and hope.
Taking place online on Thursdays at 8pm ET, this series of evening performances invites artists to address states of unrest, mourning, isolation, and uncertainty. Each week we have invited one artist to participate and, in turn, asked them to invite a second artist to collaborate with them. The resulting works take the form of bedtime rituals and dreams for the future, explorations of traditional Lakota lullabies, guided meditations, telenovelas, and sing-alongs.
All events are free with a suggested donation to one of the following funds designated by the artists: G.L.I.T.S., Inc., an organization which rehouses and supports Black trans people after incarceration; the Disability Justice Mutual Aid Fund, a short-term mutual aid fund for disabled organizers involved with the protests for Black liberation; and the Oglala Sioux Tribe COVID-19 Disaster Relief Fund.
Recordings of these events will be available on CUE’s website for a minimum of one week following each performance.
Thursday, June 18, 8pm (Eastern Time)
Dirt Above, Dirt Below
A guided meditation by Clay AD and Romily Alice Walden
Thursday, June 25, 8pm (Eastern Time)
I just wanna hold
A performance by Arisleyda Dilone and Camilo Godoy
Thursday, July 2, 8pm (Eastern Time)
hokšíkilowaŋpi
A performance by Kite and Corey Stover
If you have specific access questions or needs, please contact info@cueartfoundation.org and we will do our best to accommodate you.
Clay AD was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and now lives in Berlin where they are a somatic bodyworker, tarot reader, writer and artist. In their interdisciplinary practice they honour and explore illness, ecology, science fiction, transformation and the politics of care under capitalism -- by themselves, collectively and with their clients. Their first novel, "Metabolize, If Able" is available through Arcadia Missa Press UK and was named a finalist in the 31st Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror. Their writing has been published by Pilot Press, Futures Journal, Hematopoiesis Press, and Monster House Press. They have led somatic and writing workshops at NGBK Berlin, Gemeinde Köln and Shedhalle Zurich, and read internationally including at the Institute for Contemporary Arts London. They received their BFA from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.
Arisleyda Dilone is an artist and filmmaker born in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic. In 2015, she completed the short film: Mami y Yo y Mi Gallito/Mom and Me and My Little Rooster which has screened nationally at the Brooklyn Arts Museum, New Orleans Film Festival, Brooklyn Museum and Mercer Union to name a few. Arisleyda is a member of Diverse Filmmakers Alliance, Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective, and Ay Ombe Theater. She was a 2014 UnionDocs fellow and a 2015 Queer Art Program fellow. She has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, Macdowell Colony and Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center. She is currently in post-production on Y Este Cuerpo También/This Body, Too, a feature documentary about her intersex body and the construction of femininity and womanhood in her Dominican-American family.
Camilo Godoy is an artist and an educator born in Bogotá, Colombia and based in New York, United States. He is a graduate of The New School with a BFA from Parsons School of Design, 2012; and a BA from Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, 2013. Godoy was a 2018 Session Artist, Recess; 2018 Artist-in-Residence, Leslie-Lohman Museum; 2018 Artist-in-Residence, coleção moraes-barbosa; 2017 Artist-in-Residence, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP); 2015-2017 Artist-in-Residence, Movement Research; among others. He has presented his work in New York at the Brooklyn Museum, CUE, Danspace Project, PARTICIPANT INC; Mousonturm, Frankfurt; Toronto Biennial, Toronto; among others.
Kite aka Suzanne Kite is an Oglala Lakota performance artist, visual artist, and composer raised in Southern California, with an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School, and is a PhD candidate at Concordia University, Research Assistant for the Initiative for Indigenous Futures, and a 2019 Trudeau Scholar. Her research is concerned with contemporary Lakota epistemologies through research-creation, computational media, and performance practice. Recently, Kite has been developing a body interface for movement performances, carbon fiber sculptures, immersive video & sound installations.
Corey Stover (Oglala Lakota) is the Vice President of the Medicine Root District Executive Board of Pine Ridge Reservation. Stover holds a Bachelors in Lakota Studies, with an emphasis in Indian Law. He is a powwow dancer and a traditional artist focusing on beadwork.
Romily Alice Walden is a transdisciplinary artist whose work centres a queer, disabled perspective on the fragility of the body. Their practice spans sculpture, installation, video, curation and printed matter, all of which is undertaken with a socially engaged and research-led working methodology. Recent work has shown at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art: Newcastle, Hebel Am Uffer: Berlin, SOHO20: New York and Tate Exchange: Tate Modern: London. In 2019 Walden was a Shandaken Storm King resident, and will be resident at Wysing Arts Centre in 2020. They work both individually and collectively as a member of Sickness Affinity Group; a group of art workers and activists who work on the topic of sickness/disability and/or are affected by sickness/disability.