Team
SJ Norman
Co-Curator
S.J Norman (b. 1984) is a cross-disciplinary artist and writer. His career has so far spanned 18 years and has embraced a diversity of disciplines and formal outcomes, including solo and ensemble performance, installation, sculpture, text, video and sound. He is a non-binary transmasculine person and a diasporic Koori of Wiradjuri descent, born on Gadigal land. Since 2006 he has lived and worked between Australia, Germany, the UK, and the land known to many as Turtle Island.
Joseph M. Pierce
Co-Curator
Joseph M. Pierce is Associate Professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature at Stony Brook University. His research focuses on the intersections of kinship, gender, sexuality, and race in Latin America, 19th century literature and culture, queer studies, Indigenous studies, and hemispheric approaches to citizenship and belonging. He is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.
Chloe Alexandra Thompson
Designer and Digital Producer
Thompson is an interdisciplinary artist, technologist, arts-worker, and member of Beaver Lake Cree Nation. She is presently located in Lenapehoking.
Carlee Smith
Producer
Smith is an arts worker, organizer, and community member of Indigenous descent from Muisca lands and is currently located on the unceded land of Multnomah, Wasco, Kathlamet, Cowlitz, Clackamas, Bands of Chinook, Tualatin Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other Indigenous peoples.
Partners
Performance Space New York
New York, New York
Performance Space New York is situated on the Lenape island of Manhahtaan (Mannahatta) and more broadly in Lenapehoking, the Lenape homeland.
PICA
Portland, Oregon
PICA is situated on the traditional and unceded lands of the Multnomah, Wasco, Kathlamet, Cowlitz, Clackamas, Bands of Chinook, Tualatin Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other Indigenous peoples.
The Momentary
Bentonville, Arkansas
The Momentary, a satellite of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, is a settler and guest in the Northwest Arkansas region acknowledging the Caddo, Quapaw, and Osage as well as the many Indigenous caretakers of the land and water.
Performance Space Australia
Sydney, Australia
Performance Space acknowledges the Gadigal people of the land we work on as the traditional custodians of this place we now call Sydney.
Ballroom Marfa
Marfa, Texas
Ballroom Marfa is situated on land affiliated with the Jumanos, Lipan Apache, and Mescalero Apache peoples.
Blakdance
Brisbane, Australia
BlakDance is based on Turrbal and Yuggera Country in Meanjin (Brisbane) at the Judith Wright Centre.