Ep.3: Self Contained
Episode 3: SELF CONTAINED
Jennifer Harge and Joiri Minaya discuss how to display and perform art in new, cool ways.
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ABOUT THE GUESTS
JENNIFER HARGE is an interdisciplinary choreographer, performance artist, and educator originally from Saginaw, MI. With deep familial roots in Detroit, she moved there in 2014 after living in various US cities. Her work utilizes movement based performance and community gathering to center Black and queer vernacular movement practices, codes, and rituals. Harge’s most recent creative research is anchored in embodied archives, ancestral knowledge, Black fellowship, and Black churchicality. In 2014 she founded Harge Dance Stories to create a movement and performance platform centering Black subjectivity.
Harge is the inaugural recipient of the 2019 Eva Yaa Asantewaa Grant for Queer Women(+) Dance Artists, as well as the 2019 Dance/USA Fellowships to Artists. Her work has also been supported by: Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Yaddo, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, The Philadelphia Thing, Kresge Arts in Detroit, Knight Foundation, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Washington National Cathedral, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, University of Michigan, Duke University, and Wayne State University.
Harge holds a MFA in Dance from University of Iowa as a Dean’s Graduate Fellow and a BFA in Dance from University of Michigan.
JOIRI MINAYA (1990) is a Dominican-United Statesian multi-disciplinary artist whose work investigating the female body within constructions of identity, multi-cultural social spaces and hierarchies.
Born in New York, U.S, she grew up in the Dominican Republic. She graduated from the Escuela Nacional de Artes Visuales of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic (2009), the Altos de Chavón School of Design (2011) and Parsons the New School for Design (2013).
She has participated in residencies like Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Guttenberg Arts, Smack Mellon, BronxArtSpace, Bronx Museum’s AIM Program, the NYFA Mentoring Program for Immigrant Artists, Transmedia Lab at MA Scène Nationale, Red Bull House of Art Detroit, Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder Artist, Socrates Sculpture Park, Art Omi and Vermont Studio Center.
Minaya has exhibited internationally across the Caribbean and the U.S. She is a grantee from the Nancy Graves Foundation, the Rema Hort Mann Foundation (Emerging Artist Grant), the Joan Mitchell Foundation (Emerging Artist and Painters and Sculptors Grants), the Great prize and the Audience Award XXV Concurso de Arte Eduardo León Jimenes, the Exhibition Prize Centro de la Imagen (D.R.), and the Great Prize of the XXVII Biennial at the Museo de Arte Moderno (D.R).