At Long Last
10/18/24, Doors at 7:30pm $10-15 sliding scale, but NOTAFLOF at the door.
Join us for a night of care & healing and an effort towards gaining a greater understanding of our respective backgrounds. Through a collection of works spanning across dance, video, sound, and performance that showcases these acts, we will consider what has brought us together into the space, and how we can not only dignify our own history, but the histories of our neighbors as well.
In recognizing our commonalities of displacement, how can we move from yesterday and into tomorrow, through the tender acts of care and love?
Curator Bio
Lo Parks is an Interdisciplinary artist with a background in sculpture, hailing from Wilmington, DE. They are currently a Senior in the BFA program at Tyler School of Art & Architecture in Philadelphia, PA, and aim to cultivate their passion for their studio practice as well as a professional career within the curatorial world. Parks works across disciplines and whether it be through sculpture, sound, video, performance, installation, printmaking, or a combination of these practices, their work considers the human condition and aims to investigate the body in relation to the self, society and the world. Innately they create through a Black & Queer lens, while often using their own body, or the suggestion of such, as a site.
ARTIST BIOS
Kameo Chambers
Kameo Chambers is a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and curator working across film/video, AR/VR, installation, sculpture, and performance to explore the tensions between autonomy, control, and selfhood in hyperreality. Her work challenges how the Black femme body is mediated, disembodied, and commodified by systems of power, reimagining objectivity and visibility while critiquing the boundaries between the organic and synthetic.
Chambers has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at Kungliga Musikhögskolan (Sweden), the Andy Warhol Museum (PA), and Cultural DC. She has received awards such as the Vira I. Heinz Scholarship and Special Merit from the American Scholastic Press Association. Her work is part of the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford’s collection, and she recently completed the Keyes Residency (ME). Chambers holds a BA in Interdisciplinary Arts from the University of Pittsburgh and is pursuing an MFA in Electronic Integrated Arts at Alfred University.
Imogen Gosnell
Imogen Gosnell (b. 2001) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Philadelphia, PA. Her work revolves around desire as a concept to navigate "nothingness", building an archive where she explores potentials through video, drawing, and photographic methods.
Yolanda He Yang
Yolanda He Yang’s practice is rooted in evoking the sensitivities of space. Her process-driven work is shaped by the schools, homes, playgrounds, and objects passed down through her family, as well as the smells of Chinese food from her birthplace in North China.Her multidisciplinary approach synthesizes photography, body movement, performance, video, and sculpture, exploring the emotional and spatial dimensions of locational identity. Her work functions as an institutional critique, allowing uncertainty and spontaneity to unfold as a way of preserving hope in humanity.
Yolanda’s art ruptures boundaries between time, space, and meaning, advocating for resilience and the possibilities found in fugitivity and delicacy. Her participatory performances invite viewers to reconsider the politics of space and body. Her Itchy Grief project fosters collective dialogue around grief and loss within immigrant communities, reflecting her commitment to cultural identity preservation and community engagement across borders.
thai Lu
thai Lu is a transdisciplinary artist, writer, and community organizer centering their practice on the social, cultural, and physical effects of chronic illness. As a chronically ill, disabled, neurodivergent, and gender-divergent first generation American from a family of Vietnamese refugees, thai works at the intersections of Western bio-politics, Southeast Asian diaspora, post-war intergenerational suffering, relational ecologies of interdependence, and the concept of metamorphosis.
Through their personal work, thai invites the consideration of disability in the context of oppressive social structures of power. Through their community work, thai strives to aggressively augment this reality.
Mason McAvoy
Mason McAvoy is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist based in West Philadelphia. Mason loves to play pretend. She often plays these games with friends; she equally does them alone. Mason loves to make music and has been particularly fascinated by the ringing of bells. She lives on a paper floor, exchanging prose and interlocking limbs to see how words and bodies fit together. Mason recently learned about sitting and observing and waiting for things to come. Mason has spent 22 years looking really closely at people and wondering how she can love them. Mason has spent 22 years earnestly following the magnets in her elbows and knees and pointed feet, delicately describing the private language of subconscious movement with invisible lines afloat in the air. Mason believes that everything is a collage or a sculpture. She is making actionable plans to live into the world of which she dreams.
sharedelusion (Duo with Lucy Flippen & Magalay Gallagher)
sharedelusion is a dance collective whose work explores boundaries, borders, and middle spaces. sharedelusion has presented work with Philadelphia Fringe Festival via Cannonball Festival, Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers Inhale Artist Showcase, and Koresh Artist Showcase. They debuted “see me to see you” at Philly PACK in March 2024.
Lucy Flippen (she/her) is presently an artist-in-residence with Kun Yang-Lin/Dancers and a teaching artist with Music Theatre Philly. She received her BFA in Dance with an Art Therapy minor at University of the Arts. Most notably at UArts, she performed in restaged productions of DMan in the Waters (Bill T. Jones) and Changing Steps (Merce Cunningham Trust).
Magaly Gallagher (she/they) is a dancer and choreographer from in Laredo, Texas. They received their BFA in Dance under the direction of Donna Faye Burchfield. At UArts, Magaly trained under and performed for Katie Swords-Thurman, Mark Haim, Curt Haworth, Sheer Spectacle, and Wayne St. David. Most recently, they studied and performed under Akira Uchida’s Peridance Performance Project.