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With epic consideration, I choose to abandon niceties and generalities within my solo performance, poetry, spoken word, theatrical and film concepts.
I choose to detail my own irreverent unraveling, unapologetically. Autobiographical stories that morph into immersive solo performance concepts are where the thrill of how I choose to story tell becomes activated. And, activated in a communal performance space where we can collectively bend, but not break.
My stories and performative style aim to serve as a stand-in for the universal private moments that belong to each of us. Stylized as simultaneously cringe-worthy-yet-charming, my genre-bending personal narrative aims to unearth both grit and glow. May my writing serve as a catalyst to continue onward with fervor to excavate avenues that upset the comfort of anchored ideologies of misogynistic and heteronormative attitudes.
This is how I choose to interrogate the complexity of my writing and of my creative excavations: full transparency.
- Gina Cornejo (she/they)
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I think of my work as a process of weirding space, of challenging our predominant modes of encounter. I am interested in our interactions with the natural world and in our ephemeral moments: time spent in transit, discarded trash, carelessly-made marks. Such activities are among our most mundane and damaging, but also among our most human.
My use of a wide range of media seeks to give voice to the collective separateness of contemporary existence. Flashing neon, video, sculpture, and performance invoke the normalized loneliness of modern life and ask us to reconsider the tenuous nature of interpersonal connections.
Ultimately, I resist the brutality of the mundane and instead lay claim to the value of the natural environment, the power of lyricism, and the need for quiet. Co-opting, destabilizing, opposing, holding forth, building small fires of meaning and protest in the cracks—this is what I want my work to achieve.
- Alix Anne Shaw (she/ze, her/hir)
