News: John Sims Residency — 2020: (Di)Visions of America, Events 12/1-12/5 at La MaMa
The acclaimed multidisciplinary creator, activist, performer, and 2021 La MaMa Artist-in-Residence John Sims will be presenting 2020: (Di)Visions of America , a series of workshopped-for-stage multimedia performances of works never before seen in New York City that melds performative letter writing, installation art, film, music, dance, and video gaming. This series, based on the themes of the COVID-19 pandemic, American policing, and Recoloration Proclamation – a 20-year project that confronts, and confiscates Confederacy iconography and symbols and spaces of American slavery – is a cry for help, hope and healing. The featured pieces are: AfroDixiesRemixes: La MaMa Listening Session Sound and Flag installation. A NYC premiere This audio-visual event presents a giant red, black and green (colors of Black liberation) Confederate flag, along with the listening session of The AfroDixieRemixes – a collection of 14 tracks of Dixie in the many genres of Black music: spiritual, blues, go