ABSCONDED :: #PRECEDENTSDAY

A PERFORMANCE BY DRAGONFLY

as part of the virtual exhibition
 

 Body Memory - Body Vision: Performance Works 

DRAGONFLY [she/they, aka Robin LaVerne Wilson] is a multidisciplinary artist who creates media and performance rituals for collective liberation. Born in Detroit and raised in Texas, she descends from enslaved Africans who rooted themselves in Alabama and Georgia after the end of the first American Civil War. She is the Gen X daughter of a career US Army combat medic (Korea and Viet Nam), and a military wife / homemaker / non-domestic cleaner. The unresolved intergenerational traumas of race, class, gender, religion and sexuality inform Dragonfly’s work as an artist/activist.

Dragonfly has studied with Linda Montano, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, and Sharon Bridgforth, earned a BA from Rutgers, and is completing an MA from CUNY in Applied Theatre. Recent appearances include collaborations with Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens at NY MOMA and in the San Francisco Pride Parade, environmental street activism with Al Límite Collective and Sane Energy Project, debut of her solo show Black Queer Madness is/as Hypersanity at Theatre Neumarkt in Zurich, as well as a decade of leadership and performance with Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir.

Her current project is ABSCONDED, featuring embodiment of historical fugitive and forgotten founding mother Ona Judge. ABSCONDED is a recurring site- and context-specific public performance on streets and social media. Archival performance of #UnpaidLaborDay was co-produced by Grace Exhibition Space, and #EjectionDay was supported by Hemispheric Institute. ABSCONDED has received coverage by Hyperallergic, the Brooklyn Rail and Ecumenica.