Cuban-born and current Cannonball Artist-in-Residence Carlos Martiel will produce Sentence, a new public performance that reacts to his unnerving encounter with the urban and social experience of contemporary Miami, particularly areas of north downtown and Overtown.
Known for performances that explore the coercive interactions between the individual and the state, particularly as these revolve around race and Afro-Atlantic heritage, Martiel has shifted in this new piece: from identity to concrete economic conditions; from autobiography to social narrative; from the kind of inscription on the body that a centralized state produces to another one that results from the more diffuse forces of economic disparity. Fully-covered by a weighty, concrete-layered bedspread bolted to the sidewalk, Martiel will lay naked for as long as he is physical able to. A publication documenting Martiel’s new performance is forthcoming.
Performance:
Friday, September 12, 2014. 6:00 pm
Saturday, September 13, 2014. 6:00 pm
Cannonball Miami
1035 N. Miami, Suite 300
Miami, FL 33136
786.347.2360
[email protected]
www.cannonballmiami.org
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