project: MEMORABILIA
“To live in a world that desires tactility means to live with the boundless pursuit of connection. A world that includes phantoms of imaginary figures once we sleep. At times, my experience with skin, flesh, and bone hinders my comprehension of the spirit. I wonder if my obsession with being knowledgeable is what dissolves my innate self. To forget my own sequential sensations is to be isolated from the film I wish to continue watching. The moments that can feel to last for a lifetime only have but a fraction of the life I have yet to live. Will I remember them once I wake?”
PSYKLE. I (excerpt)
The beginning of the inception being explored. Creating identities with phantoms I've believed to have met in the physical; humanoid pillars for my bridge. The work involves familiarity to oddities that have always existed, but never conversed with.
Music: James Blake & Braxton Cook
Choreographed & Performed by Kar’mel Antonyo Wade Small in collaboration with Beatriz Castro & Caleb Patterson
Special Thanks to Mike Esperanza, Damani Pompey, Kyra Akia Naomi Ferguson, and Michelle Thompson Ulerich.
Performance at Arts On Site (December 19th, 2021)
the memory gallery
I am in a space that reminds me of the guilt I feel when revisiting the memories I thought were lost. I held a standard to skin, flesh, and bone only to lose my comprehension of the spirit. My desire for knowledge kept me from the importance of intimacy, and that was shielded by my longing to remain in the world that kept from anything except freedom. This is my consequence in all its plasticity.
Music: Yusef Lateef
Choreographed & Performed by Kar’mel Antonyo Wade Small
Muse: Kyra Akia Naomi Ferguson
Special Thanks to Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation & Chez Bushwick
Performance at Chez Bushwick (June 22nd, 2022)