I just wanna hold
A performance by Arisleyda Dilone and Camilo Godoy
Thursday, June 25, 8pm (Eastern Time)
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In this virtual performance inspired by the song Dreaming of You by Selena, Arisleyda Dilone and Camilo Godoy present metaphors for aspirational futures and identities by singing, acting, and inviting viewers to participate along with them. Humor and satire serve as tools to question the fantasy that your needs will be met in the future and not in the present. I just wanna hold appropriates scripts from Latinx novelas to recreate a drama immersed in Queer affect, affirmation, anti-racism, and self-love.
This event is free with a suggested donation to the following fund designated by the artists: G.L.I.T.S., Inc., an organization which rehouses and supports Black trans people after incarceration.
The artists will ask 4 volunteers to help read a brief script during the event. If you are interested in volunteering for this role, please email info@cueartfoundation.org. If you have specific access questions or needs, please contact info@cueartfoundation.org and we will do our best to accommodate you.
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.
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.