Up in Arms

Performance Lecture by Anna-Maria Nabirye & Annie Saunders. Followed by an Open Conversation, 90 mins

Following a residency at VBKÖ, artists Anna-Maria Nabirye and Annie Saunders present a performance lecture of their multi-disciplinary work, Up In Arms, a new way to make space for conversation in our increasingly divided world.

Using ritual, photography and immersive theatre practice to create intimate conversation and radical social change, Up In Arms is a culmination of our work and relationship as interracial activists, creative collaborators, and friends. The piece exists as an intimate experience in real time, a piece of live art and social practice, as we invite a black woman and participant of her choosing, to re-enact and re-create the iconic portrait of Dorothy Pitman-Hughes and Gloria Steinem captured by photographer Dan Wynn in 1971 for Esquire Magazine. The re-creation of this image acts as a ritual to open space for uncomfortable, challenging, transformative conversation, led by the artists. The resulting audio and video recordings and portraits will form an interactive visual exhibition a live series of performance lectures and a working handbook to guide Intersectional collaboration

We’re showing up for the challenge of this conversation, and we hope you’ll join us. We’re learning a lot and are excited to share this emerging work with you.

A&A
@_upinarms
www.upinarmsproject.com