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NEXT, NATURE (Evening Invocation) complete film

NEXT, NATURE

Performed by Hot Hands Collective

Written and composed by Kiowa Hammons and Daonne Huff

Costumes and sets by Jamie Gray Williams

Filmed by Haoyan of America

Saturday, September 8 / EVENING INVOCATION / 8 – 10pm

Featuring musicians:

Joshua Araujo (trumpet and percussions)

Steven Bartashev (drums)

Aaron Campbell (cello)

Spencer Friedman (guitar)

Keith Rowland (bass)

Ryan Shreves (synth and guitar)

Ivan Khilko (sound mixing)

Footage of Sunday’s MIDDAY DEVOTIONAL IS COMING!

Special thanks to Hanne Tierney and Marine Cournet of FiveMyles Gallery

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The Glass Eye (revisited)

It’s up! Full feature of “The Glass Eye (revisited) performed on April 16, 2018 at JACK in Brooklyn, NY.

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NEXT, NATURE

SAVE THE DATES! Saturday, Sept 8 and Sunday, Sept 9

Humankind’s perception of nature has run the gamut between harmony and conflict. From our earliest depictions of the world in the caves of Lascaux, the writings of first nations and religious zealots, and the awe inspired poetry of the Transcendentalists; to the development of cities and industry, pollution, and the impending self-fulfilled prophecy of climate change: we have both praised and denied our intrinsic relationship with Earth as the bearer of sustenance and ambivalent destroyer. This skewed balance has become even more prevalent as we learn more and more of the effects of our presence here--facing the tangible dilemma of maintaining societal infrastructure in light of a world that may break...or just break us. 

Next, Nature is a new work focusing on human perceptions of the natural world and how they stand in direct conflict with our footprint upon it. The piece will be in two parts--each a reflection of one another, and will commence on September 8th and 9th, 2018. September 8th, Next, Nature (Evening Invocation), will consist of an evening of live performance of music, words, and movement. September 9th, Next, Nature (Midday Devotional), will be a live day-long durational piece in which elements of the previous evening’s performance will be refracted, reflected, and transformed through film, music, text and performative actions.

Next, Nature (Evening Invocation) Saturday, Sept 8  8pm - 10pm                  (No intermissions, continual piece)

Featuring musicians: Joshua Araujo (trumpet and percussions), Steven Bartashev (drums), Aaron Campbell (cello), Spencer Friedman (guitar), Keith Rowland (bass) and Ryan Shreves (synth and guitar) Next, Nature (Midday Devotional)  Sunday, Sept 9 12pm - 4pm                        (This is a durational piece in which you are welcome to walk through the space and come and go as you please over the four hours)                                    

Featuring films by 

Mahsa Biglow

Jenn Grossman

Haoyan of America

Leslie Hodgkins

Miho Morita

NonFilms 

Music and Libretto by Kiowa Hammons and Daonne Huff                  Costume and Sets by Jamie Gray Williams

FiveMyles Gallery

558 St Johns Place                                                                                  Brooklyn, NY 11238                                                        http://www.fivemyles.org/

Both events are free and open the public.

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The Glass Eye (revisited) Trailer

The teaser trailer is now up for The Glass Eye (revisited)! Full performance film still to come! Special Thanks to Haoyan of America for filming and editing!

Libretto can be read here.

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The Glass Eye (revisited)

The Glass Eye (revisited)

A performance by Hot Hands Collective: Kiowa Hammons and Daonne Huff

with special guest Steven Bartashev

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April 16th, 2018 at 8pm

JACK

505 1/2 Waverly Avenue

Brooklyn, NY 11238

jackny.org

$15

The Glass Eye is a multi-disciplinary performance piece for voice, music, and film concerning the disembodiment of the black body through police violence and acts of protest to combat it—witnessed through the camera eye. The work was originally performed in 2016; at the height of protest against seemingly endless incidents of documented police brutality against African Americans. The Glass Eye (revisited) reconsiders and re-contextualizes the previous work two years later: amidst continual abuses and unjust incarceration by law enforcement; the propagation of white nationalism and islamophobia; and discrimination against immigrants. In opposition to this cultural plight, the piece further examines how acts of protest and civil disobedience continues to serve as a voice of dissent and a call for change. And as with the original piece, The Glass Eye (revisited) explores how these dichotomies are being addressed within our media saturated cultural environment--in which the camera plays the role of the ever-present witness and a tool of manipulation for an authoritarian justice system.

The performance will be preceded with films by Aaron Turner

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5 Parts of One W(hole): With History Repeating Itself, Will you Love Me Tomorrow? Full Performances

"Seja Marginal, Seja Herói" (Be an outlaw, be a hero)-- Hélio Oiticica

A response, an impromptu action/gesture, a mediation, a release, a purge, a cry for help, a cry for hope, a call to build, a call to repair, a Sankofa and a telescope.

Pulled from personal text, original music, sound samples, children's toys, musical instruments, household supplies, archival photos and films, 5 Parts of One W(hole): with history repeating itself, will you love me tomorrow? is Hot Hands' fractured yet unified coping mechanism for living in an age of Trump, an age where the intentions, sincerity and purpose of art is perpetually in question, an age where capitalism is the film that coats all and an age where as a society we've seemingly fallen back into even more regimented states of color coded, genital parts, class based hierarchies. And yet, being who we are, holding onto an optimism for the future present.

Performed on Thursday, June 8, 2017 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York.

Hot Hands is Kiowa Hammons and Daonne Huff. Cinematography by Haoyan of America Edited by Kiowa Hammons

Special thanks to Joel Snyder and the Theater Crew of the Whitney Museum, Haoyan of America, DebtFair/Occupy Museums and Hanneline Rogeberg.

Part I: Escapism (Setting the Scene)

Part II: Who Has the Answer (Macro)

Part III: On America (In Circles)

Part IV:  Fragments from Sweet Auburn (Personal)

Part V:  New Normal (Onward)

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Whitney Biennial 2017 Part II

We were honored to be invited to perform for the closing Member’s Night for the 2017 Biennial on Thursday, June 8th. We premiered a brand new piece: “Five Parts of 1 W(hole): History Repeating Itself, Will you Love Me Tomorrow?”

Click here to read the libretto.

And here’s the teaser trailer for the full performance, shot and edited by Haoyan of America. The full performance coming soon!

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Whitney Biennial 2017 Part I

Ephemera from our “Prism, Mirror, Lens” performance featuring the Libretto and sculptures by Ethan Green was included in the Debtfair/Occupy Museums Installation at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2017 Biennial (New York, New York).

Above installation shot by Bill Orcutt, courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art

As an intervention within the Museum, artists within the Debtfair installation staged a demonstration which included Hot Hands.

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“Prism, Mirror, Lens”

Performed November 21, 2016 at Five Myles Gallery, Brooklyn NY for the In Flux Festival and the BRIC Biennial 2016

Collaborator: Ethan Green (sculpture installations)

Current trends in urban transformation and gentrification question our identities as individuals and as members of a society—a prism deflecting our sense of cultural identity. The performance group Hot Hands will explore these questions through futurist sounds, film and movement in the multi-media piece Prism, Mirror, Lens. Using the mirror of historical “truths”, the mythologies of first peoples, the words of science fiction writers, urban critique, and the style of afrofuturism; the group will create a lens to visualize the present through reflections of the past and the light of the future.

Prism, Mirror, Lens Libretto: https://goo.gl/QoRhm5

Full film of the November 19th, 2016 performance of Prism, Mirror, Lens at Five Myles Gallery, as part of the 2016 BRIC Biennial. Videography by Martin Loper.

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“The Glass Eye”

Performed February 26, 2016 at BLDG92 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard,  Brooklyn, NY for “Some Assembly Required”/Black Artstory Month 2016

Collaborators: Victorious Dance Company members Ferrin Coleman and Whitney McIntosh

The placement of a camera on a body of authority as a deterrent of violence to another has created new forms of perception and symbolism concerning race relations and the growing paranoia for “the other” from both citizens and those sworn to protect them. The Glass Eye is a multi-disciplinary performance piece for voice, music, dance and film concerning the disembodiment of the black body through police violence; and the subsequent protests in reaction to these incidents—witnessed through the camera eye.

The Glass Eye Libretto: goo.gl/OgNghE

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“A Fiction of Matter”

Screening of film with live soundtrack performed on June 6, 2015 as part of a weekend of performances at Sulphurbath Studios for Bushwick Open Studios 2015.

A travelogue, a love letter, a meditation on US history; this performance re-textualizes instances of movement by Daonne Huff collected through various travels. Locations include Joshua Tree National Park, New Orleans, New York, and Texas. 

Created by Hot Hands Collective: Dance choreography and performance: Daonne Huff Film, editing, and music: Kiowa Hammons

Special thanks to Mike Wilson for organizing the premiere of this performance and for the live audio recording

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“These Hands Built”

Performed February 21, 2015 at BLDG 92 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard for “Where I’m From”/Black Artstory Month 2015

Collaborators: Eric Trosko and Leslie Hodgkins

Taking inspiration from 1940s art and culture, the physical workplaces and the stories of the known and unknown African American men and women workers of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, THESE HANDS BUILT aims to recognize and honor the presence of the Black hands that built ships, (re) built bodies, (re) built nations and built foundations for social and political change for future generations within the United States and abroad. The experimental music group Hot Hands will present a live performance inspired by the histories of former African American workers at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Incorporating live instruments, samples and vocals; the ensemble will interpret and transform environmental soundscapes, music from the 1940s, and the words of those who worked in the Yard as an homage to the Brooklyn Navy Yard as both space and historical catalyst.

These Hand Built Libretto: goo.gl/TiL9rO

Image by Cheyanne Epps and Jose Rodriquez

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Recorded in 2014 in remembrance of a dear friend, Hajji Majer. This piece also marks the first Hot Hands collaboration.

Daonne Huff: vocals, synth Kiowa Hammons: sax

photograph by Autumn Bisner (used with permission)