Brooklyn, NY
OPEN LAB | Sermon with Nocturnal Medicine
How do you deliver a message? How do you gather around darkness while illuminating pleasure?
In this immersive, participatory gathering, Nocturnal Medicine – a nonprofit studio for climate consciousness and cultural transformation founded by Larissa Belcic and Michelle Farang Shofet – invites the sensual body into an experiment in the sermon. How do you deliver a message? How do you gather around darkness while illuminating pleasure? Playing in the space between religious service and performance art, working in collaboration with the audience, Nocturnal Medicine spins their tried methods and ideologies into an experimental practice that transcends the intellectual and awakens the body subconscious. ABOUT THE ARTISTS Nocturnal Medicine is a nonprofit studio for climate consciousness and cultural transformation. Founded by Larissa Belcic and Michelle Farang Shofet in 2016, the collective makes new ways of gathering for the worlds of today and tomorrow. Their practice centers the regeneration of our relationships – with Earth, with each other, and with ourselves. Amongst Nocturnal Medicine’s body of work, they have created sanctuaries for ecological grief, climate-aware seasonal rites, chapels for extinction, and raves for public healing. Their work has been celebrated in The New York Times and CityLab as bringing a cutting-edge, soul-centered approach to addressing the psycho-emotional impacts of climate crisis. They have designed and produced immersive social experiences across diverse platforms, including in nightlife (Nowadays, Gospel), cultural institutions (Lincoln Center, Performance Space New York), and at universities across the country (MIT, UVA, Yale).
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In this immersive, participatory gathering, Nocturnal Medicine – a nonprofit studio for climate consciousness and cultural transformation founded by Larissa Belcic and Michelle Farang Shofet – invites the sensual body into an experiment in the sermon.
Ages: 16 +
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About CPR – Center for Performance Research
CPR – Center for Performance Research is dedicated to supporting artists in the development of new work in contemporary dance, performance, and time-based art. CPR forefronts the artistic process, and upholds a belief that embodied art forms are vital vessels for creativity, connection, and social change. CPR believes that a just and equal performing arts environment is aesthetically, racially, and ethnically diverse; inclusive of bodies of all backgrounds and abilities; committed to BIPOC and LGBTQ+ justice; and supportive of a broad range of embodied modes of expression. CPR’s programs support artistic creation at all stages of development, and provide artists with a wide range of opportunities for development, experimentation, and exchange. Programs are concentrated in three areas: 1) Artistic residency programs which provide creative and professional development support for a diverse range of artists working across contemporary performance practices; 2) Curated and open call public programs that focus on incubation and research, which expose local audiences and the wider NYC arts field to contemporary performance practice and process; and 3) a Subsidized Space Rental Program which ensures that artists can access affordable space for creation and presentation.