Join visiting artist Dominique C. Hill for a participatory happening: Evocation
Evocation is a guided movement experience for cultivating intimate connections. Led by the artist, this experiential process of memory and movement invites participants to connect with the land, artworks on site, and with each other.
When: Saturday, July 20th, 10-11:30am
Meet at Stone Quarry’s office on the hilltop @ 10am
16 and up. Maximum attendance: 15 participants
What to expect:
This guided movement experience will involve intentional breathing, walking, moving (and possibly some dancing), as well as guided suggestions from the artist. This is a sensing experience so those present will also be encouraged to listen to themselves and to move from that space. There will be music played, prompts offered, and invitations for interactive moments with others present. People should engage physically at their level of willingness and capacity. They should wear comfy clothes and can opt to engage barefoot.
No prior experience necessary. Bring yourself and your curiosity!
Rain or shine. Bottled water, sunscreen, and insect repellent will be provided.
Questions? Please email artistic director Sayward Schoonmaker: sayward@sqhap.org
About the artist:
Lover, daughter, and cultural worker, Dominique C. Hill, PhD, is an interdisciplinary scholar-creative whose work explores embodiment, Black girlhood, body memory, and intergenerational tensions. Hill enacts spiritual and intergenerational work as a homegirl of Saving Our Lives, Hear Our Truths (SOLHOT), a guide of the 28 Day Global Dance Meditation, and as co-visionary of Hill L. Waters (HLW). An arts-based research collaborative that enacts Black queer worldmaking, HLW conducts workshops, stages original performances, and co-authors scholarship dedicated to Black liberation. Navigating geographies and contexts racially charged, anti-queer, and organized by dichotomies, Hill’s artistic practice, research, writing, and communal engagement destabilizes domination, investigates material and normalized borders, as well as engenders deeper intimacy and embodied living. Storied by elders as “dancing before she could walk, '' and raised by three generations of womn who know the power of prayer, girls’ night out, and a strong work ethic, Hill is inspired by Black social dance, everyday artful living, poetry, and queer configurations of family. Fluent in introspection, storytelling, mindful and inquiry-based movement, Hill harnesses and celebrates Black survival. Hill’s book (forthcoming 2025) titled, Black Gurl Reliable examines embodiment and practices of resistance in Black girlhood. Hill is also co-author of two books, Performative Intergenerational Dialogues of a Black Quartet (Routledge, 2022) and Who look at me?!: Shifting the Gaze of Education Through Blackness, Queerness, and the Body (Brill|Sense, 2019). Hill extends the field of Black Girlhood Studies as an assistant professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Colgate University.
