Public Reception: Overheard in the Underworld
Please join us for the public reception of "Overheard in the Underworld" by Laura Harrison and Lilli Carré. During the reception, the two animation artists will speak about their work and do a reading from Alice Notley's poem The Descent of Alette. Following the reading, artists Chris Sullivan and Curtis Oren will perform improvised music on seaboard and saxophone.
Overheard in the Underworld is a collaborative animated installation of a subterranean world of metamorphosis, grief, and reflection. Created as a poetic response to The Descent of Alette, a book-length feminist poem by Alice Notley. With the poem as their starting point, Laura Harrison and Lilli Carré created a series of interlaced, hand-drawn animated scenes, responding to specific imagery and scenarios found in Notley’s words, improvising on these moments in their own hand. Beginning with a subway ride into surreal and unfamiliar depths, the piece takes a circular journey through tunnels of the flesh and the mind. A shape-shifting woman protagonist confronts shadow selves and power structures in pursuit of healing and transformation, moving from despair to revolt and renewal.
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