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Ligia Lewis: A PLOT / A SCANDAL at EMPAC February 16+17, 2024
EMPAC at Rensselaer invites audiences to A PLOT / A SCANDAL by Ligia Lewis in the EMPAC Theater.
Rebellious fantasies become schemes against the limits of narration. Mythical, historical, and political vignettes scandalize landed property’s legacy.
Where plot is a scandal, the stage gives itself over to the pleasures of transgression. Here, Lewis explores what it might mean to be caught in the act.
Drawing together personae that range from Enlightenment thinker John Locke, 16th-century Santo Domingo slave rebellion leader Maria Olofa (Wolofa), Cuban artist and revolutionary José Aponte, and Lewis’s great-grandmother, Lewis choreographs a “poetics of refusal at the edges of representation.”
Scheming against theater’s strict economy of seeing and being seen, the artist outlines a scene “where the excitement for that which does not fit might find its place.”
Event Links
Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/2214160-0
Website: https://go.evvnt.com/2214160-2
