Shannon Brooks is a Philadelphia-based multidisciplinary artist making live, performance-based work. Shannon is deeply influenced by the work of Disability Justice leaders and understands pain, Disability and Access as generative, creative forces that transform time, space, and power structures. Shannon cultivates tactile, embodied experiences to explore touch-based knowledge, unseen forces, and physical/invisible edges. Their work wades between practice and performance; experimenting within the interstitial spaces between body, material, and the imaginary. By growing trust in our touch sense and impulses, Shannon’s research explores memories, histories, and ghosts fossilized as archives in our environments, bodies, and imaginations. Shannon’s creative practice is deeply collaborative, eroding, and ever-transforming.
