Name: Freya Powell, Only Remains Remain
Start: 2021-10-23T18:30
End: 2021-10-23T19:30
Location: MoMA PS1

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Only Remains Remain uses the structure of a Sophoclean chorus to create an elegy for the hundreds of unidentified migrants buried in mass graves in Sacred Heart Cemetery in Brooks County, Texas. Working with an ensemble of 15 performers, Powell explores the mournful potential of the voice. Through a collaborative process, the work utilizes pitch, intonation, breath, movement, and silence to embody a contemporary tragedy drawn from the story of Antigone. The chorus of women seeks to recognize the lives of those laid to rest as unknowns by addressing the silence of their burial and our complicity and grief in the process.

Between the two performances on Saturday, October 23 from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m., Powell will lead a discussion with theorists and scholars around the topic of ambiguous loss, making connections between the ongoing tragedy in Brooks County and the COVID-19 pandemic. The artist will be in conversation with Cinthya Briones, artist and anthropologist; Alexandra Delano Alonso, Chair of Global Studies, The New School; Benjamin Nienass, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Law, Montclair State University; and Jamieson Webster, Professor, The New School for Social Research; moderated by Alex Sloane, Associate Curator of Performance and Programs, MOCA. The conversation will take place in Homeroom.

Ensemble:
Aline Salloum
Cassandra DeMarco
Christine Romulus
Courtnie Alvarado
Hannah Bailey
Lindsey Mayberry
Natasha Thweatt
Kate Garfield
Caroline Burkhart
Natasha Walfall
Maria Lavalle
Allison Gish
Nina Dante
Shanna Iglesias
Laura Murphy

Choral Director: Samuel Budin
Costumes: Liz Altman

VW Performance at MoMA PS1 is made possible by Volkswagen of America, celebrating ten years of support for performance at PS1 in 2021.

Dance programming as part of VW Performance is supported in part by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation.

Only Remains Remain is also made possible by Queens Council on the Arts with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

This performance accompanies Greater New York 2021.
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Past events

Sat, Oct 23, 2021, 6:30–7:30 p.m.

MoMA PS1
Sat, Oct 23, 2021, 2:30–3:30 p.m.

MoMA PS1
Fri, Oct 22, 2021, 6:30–7:30 p.m.

MoMA PS1

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