August 3 - 25, 2019
Opening Reception: August 3rd, 7-10pm

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One may engage in strategic performance in the interest of survival employing the same skills one uses to perform in the interest of ritual play, yet the performance standpoint alters both the nature and impact of the performance.

bell hooks, Performance Practice as a Site of Opposition

In his unpublished notes for a book on Beethoven, Theodor W. Adorno wrote, “The will, the energy that sets form in motion in Beethoven, is always the whole, the Hegelian World Spirit”. In Beethoven’s Fifth, the work of synthesizing the individual with the world spirit is accomplished through overcoming the difficult struggle of tensions: between inner and outer, between the opening motif with everything that is to come, the syncopation, the abnormal disturbance of the rhythm, the rift between surface and subcutaneous elements, the range from fortissimo to pianissimo that overwhelms the individual and absorbs them into the world spirit.

As Adorno writes of the Fifth, “The aesthetic integration of the symphonic structure is at the same time the pattern of a social integration.” However, the question must be raised, what remains of this “social integration”? What experiences and histories, including of Beethoven’s own experiences, does this synthesis obfuscate? catherine Scoti scott creates a language in “Love as an Action” to explore the experiences and traumas of the black female body that have been sacrificed for this story and remain unacknowledged. The creation of a narrative about Beethoven’s identity stands in direct contradiction to the dissonance in his music. It was well known to the Viennese elites that Beethoven had African roots …