clay practice performance

Fleisher Memorial, Philadelphia 2025

The culminating clay practice exhibition from the Leeway x Fleisher Artist in Residency (2024-2025). Taking the form of an immersive memory-landscape installation including exoskeleton, spine-fountain, and other ceramic works created in clay practice workshops, this exhibition had three parts. First, a hands-on clay practice workshop was facilitated by Shannnon Brooks exploring movement, sound, and raw clay. Then there was an open exhibition space for visitors to explore, rest, and dream in the installation. Finally, there was a two-hour improvised movement and sound performance with the ceramic objects and clay. This clay practice was intended as a ritual engagement with our senses and to decentralize sight as our primary means of experience. By reaching into touch, sound, and memory we blur the lines between and expand our sensorial cosmos and cavort with our uncertain futures.

music and sound: George Shands and Josh Meakim
performance: Shannon Brooks, Kimya Jackson, Cedar Becher
audio description and access: Julia Havard

clay practice performance

Philadelphia PA 2024

improvised sound and movement performance with Yianni Kourmadas at Space 1026.