No tickets or pre-registration required!
Movement Research at the Judson Church is a free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works-in-progress held in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists, and join Movement Research Artists-In-Residence and international guests each season in performing at the historic Judson Memorial Church.
This Movement Research at the Judson Church performance is part of the 2024 Movement Research Festival and features solo works by Lori Kharpoutlian and F.M. Sayna and culminates in a group improvisation with the Festival artists.
Lori Kharpoutlian will offer a work-in-progress presentation of “looping, loading, falling out of time” (working title). It is an excerpt from a set of musings into the politics of waiting, as it manifests in digital algorithms, economic and political strategies, and the design of everyday objects and services. Through a process of sampling and juxtaposition, formatting and reformatting, the work explores the temporal, psychological, and spatial tensions this bodily condition creates.
F.M. Sayna will present a new short dance film about leaving your beloved land through forced immigration. This displacement is like being trapped behind walls but in a larger prison. The work honors an Afghan friend of the artist and all people who are forced to choose between leaving their homeland or staying in prisons of dictatorism.
Accessibility Notes
The accessible entrance is located at 243 Thompson St. and the elevator at Judson Memorial Church is currently working. Personnel from the Judson Memorial Church will be at the entrance. The elevator connects Level 1 (street access) to Level 3 (Meeting Room where performances take place) and Level B or basement (where restrooms are located).
For access information or requests, please contact accessibility@movementresearch.org with the subject “MR at Judson”.
