In Residence February 18 – February 26, 2024 and September 23 – October 18, 2024
In moving and static images, director Charlotte Brathwaite in collaboration with visual artist Malick Welli, imagine the dreams and nightmares of the forcibly enslaved and displaced in Forgotten Paradise, a series of films, ritual performances, and photography tracing ancestral lineage across the Trans-Atlantic slave route. An ongoing series of works created in West Africa, the Caribbean and the United States.
Joining Brathwaite and Welli in-residency will be composer, Tareke Ortiz, dramaturg, composer, & writer, Sunder Ganglani, and artist, puppeteer, & educator, Greg Corbino.
The artists will spend their time in-residence connecting the questions of Forgotten Paradise with the East End area & communities. They will create images and ritual performances in collaboration with their Community Thought Partners: Dr. Georgette Grier-Key & Eastville Historical Society, Brenda Simmons & Southampton African American Museum, and Donnamaire Barnes & Sylvester Manor Educational Farm.
This residency is in partnership with New York Live Arts (NYLA).