Call for Performers

The Do-mystics

www.domystics.com

The Do-Mystics is a feminist collective created by Arantxa Araujo and Monique Blom based  in NYC, Mexico City and Saskatoon. Their work incorporates the use of new media, performance and socially engaged art. The collective explores themes through ritual processes of identity, gender, immigration and domesticity.  The work has been shown in the United States, Canada and Mexico in both galleries and site specific locations such as Beautiful Rising launch, Saskatoon (2018), Nuit Blanche YXE (2017), Glasshouse Gallery, Brooklyn (2017), Art in Odd Places NY (2017), Art in Odd Places Orlando (2016).

 

Description of proposed work:

 

“Blood and Soil-The Art of Survival” will focus on 12 repetitive domestic by 12 performers, tasks that women perform daily in an installation and movement based ritual performance. As part of the performance space we will be creating a shrine for the relics of women we cast in blood and soil. In these actions we bring light to gender equality issues and remember those that have been lost due to gendered violence.  We perform these tasks as Freedoms. Freedom of choice, freedom of expression, freedom of the social constructs.

 

If you want to apply, please fill out this survey.

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Send your CV to thedomystics@gmail.com

Time Commitment Total: 14 hrs

May 15/16th, 2018  (TBD)- 6-8pm

June 8, 2018 - 7-10pm

June 9, 2018 - 4pm-8pm

June 10, 2018 -10:30-4:00

 

Number of Performers needed: 14

 

Women/ or female-identifying: The importance of revisiting the role of women in the Americas, what unite us, what makes us free.

Born in the Americas

This performance is about the opportunity to find freedom in the repetition of the actions, to contemplate our behavior and where the mind goes, to revisit the past (to heal the past). It is about trying things with new perspectives. To do things differently.  

Your silence is your greatest gift to this performance. Only when we quiet down, we allow ourselves to contemplate without distractions, for clarity to emerge. Silence gives you a conscious body.

To train/be in Full Deep Presence through a series of Reflections.

To train/be in Silence to allow consciousness.     

To train/be in mindful action.

 

In gratitude for your work, time: we will be offering you a small honorarium or choice of signed photograph within months after the performance. The photo will be from a limited edition. We acknowledge your time, energy and dedication.