The UN-[TITLED] Project
UN-[TITLED] is an immersive, multisite-specific project that centers on the ways in which communities are displaced by development, displacement, and gentrification. Guests are guided through a series of engagements and reckonings with community meaning, cultural memory, and healing in the Central and Chinatown-International Districts of Seattle.
As a series of offerings and invitations created in collaboration with theater and community artists and architects, UN-[TITLED] is an immersive, multisite-specific project that centers on the ways in which communities are displaced by gentrification. Guests are guided through a series of engagements and reckonings with community meaning, cultural memory, and healing in the Central and Chinatown-International Districts of Seattle. Participants (artists included) are asked to locate themselves within the patterns of gentrification, locate home in themselves, and to naturalize through Right Relationship. It asks for a demonstration of responsibility to the land, air, and water, and to actively center marginalized folx, memories, and stories through art, sound, movement, performance, ritual, and community.
The UN-[TITLED] Project takes place at multiple locations in different neighborhoods. Shuttles will be provided between locations, departing from the Nova High School parking lot at 6:45pm (for 7pm shows) and 1:45pm (for 2pm shows). The performance lasts approximately two hours.
Accessibility: UN-[TITLED] includes periods of standing and walking, with limited opportunities to sit. Due to ADA limitations at the presenting sites, the performance is not accessible for guests in wheelchairs. UN-[TITLED] may not be suitable for guests under 18 years old.
DATES:
Thursday, March 23 at 7pm (Preview)
Friday, March 24 at 7pm
Saturday, March 25 at 2pm
Saturday, March 25 at 7pm
Sunday, March 26 at 2pm
Sunday, March 26 at 7pm
UN-[TITLED] Peoples: Family Tree
Curatorial
Project Conceived, Organized and Curated by Berette S Macaulay. Co-commissioned by presenting organizations On the Boards (Seattle) & BRIC Arts Media (Brooklyn, New York).
Commissioned Creative Collaborators
Benjamin Hunter (Seattle) | Composer, Musician
Margaret Knight, AIA (Seattle) | Architect, Map Design Artist, Spatial Thought-partner
Nia-Amina Minor (Seattle) | Movement Direction
Tom Pearson (Third Rail Projects, New York) | Theater Artist, Choreographic Collaborator, Development Thought-partner
Kamari Bright (Seattle) | Poet
Laurie Allison Wilson, AIA (Seattle) | Architect, Spatial Thought-partner
Performers* and Performance Development
Justin Lynch (Third Rail Projects, New York) | Performer*
Akoiya Harris (Seattle) | Performer*
marco farroni leonardo (Seattle) | Performer*
Katrina Reid (Third Rail Projects, New York)
Rebekah Morin (Third Rail Projects, New York)
Roxanne Kidd (Third Rail Projects, New York)
Community Partners
Stephanie Johnson-Toliver (Black Heritage Society of WA State)
Cynthia Brothers (Vanishing Seattle)
Tara Tamaribuchi (Friends of Inscape & Inscape Arts)
Elisheba Johnson, Inye Wokoma, and Soulma Ayers (Wa Na Wari Seattle)
Teme Wokoma (Sankofa Theater)
Jazmyn Scott (Arte Noir)
Project Geography/Site Activations
INSCAPE Arts Building (International District)
Wa Na Wari – The Peoples House (Central District)
Community Organizations and Partners
Black Heritage Society of WA State | Archive and Research Partner
Inscape and Friends of Inscape | Site and Community Partner
Wa Na Wari | Site Partner
Vanishing Seattle | Research Partner
Sankofa Theatre | Site and Community Partner
Arte Noir | Community Partner
Bric Arts Media | Co-Comissioner (Brooklyn, NY)
On the Boards | Co-Commissioner (Seattle, WA)
Jack Straw Cultural Center | Recording Studio for The UN-[TITLED] Project
Third Rail Projects | Production and Admin Support for Tom Pearson
i•ma•gine | e•volve | Admin Support for Berette S Macaulay