“…ideas of ancestral connections akin to gathering roots as a process of holding up a mirror between earth and our minds. At a certain angle, the routes all meet and we find our way back home. Goat Farm roots have always mapped glo’s way back home from the crucial spaces we are in the labyrinth of our journeys.”

– glo on “quality without a name, Tao, Thay”

We are so very pleased to invite you to the angle where the earth and roots and each moment all meet, our new compilation of research/experiment. The project traces the development of our social movement platform which is in the process of temporarily vacating our Westside Atlanta Corner Studio during a major rebuild phase at the Goat Farm Arts Center. This project invites the public into this moment in its generative state while tracing our lived experience of collaboration through an alive center of a complex body of ideas, actions, and images, which are composed of notes, sound, viscera, maps, gods, journals, various plumb lines, and ancestors. Together, these entwined pieces create both living, breathing art and archive.

the angle where the earth and roots and each moment all meet
Feb 13-15, 2022
Corner Studio, Goat Farm Arts Center
Here for schedule of actions and to sign up for indoor seating, and last People Parade

The projects title is from the quality without a name, an architectural term expressing theories and most fundamental qualities considered by some the Tao of Architecture.  As well, Thich Nhat Hanh, and his ideas of ancestral connections akin to gathering roots as a process of holding up a mirror between earth and our minds. At a certain angle, the routes all meet and we find our way back home. Goat Farm roots have always mapped glo’s way back home from the crucial spaces we are in the labyrinth of our journeys– from small living spaces in the rural South, to rivers, schools, and huge gallery exhibitions.

The process of separating the important strands that inform our work–alchemy, southern tradition, epistemology, ancestry, and emergence–reveals the extraordinary breadth of the thinking that underlay the methods of this art created on the Goat Farm for a decade. All of the choreography MAPPING share this feeling—an open-ended meditation on the humanism inherent in our bodies in motion. As stated in the glo manifesto 2021, “of every experience we highlight the life that is lived between them.”  the angle where the earth and roots and each moment all meet confronts public with the issues of memory and mourning.

Schedule of actions: Feb.  13-15, 2022

Tree choir: a short film piece
Feb 13
1:30-3pm
virtual

A new short movement choir for film, starring moving artists Vernisa Allen, Vinisha Browne, Mary Jane Pennington, and Mechelle Tunstall.
and, in us . . .under us
February 14
6-9pm

A live art of actions, and the final choreography MAPPING on the original farm, entitled and, in us…under us after Joseph Beuys 1964 performance of actions. Moving artist and LAB lead Mary Jane Pennington, and moving artist and transcriber Mechelle Tunstall remember as a tool for reorganizing, for discovering anew their senses amidst 14 existing live art works between 2014-2020. The prolific moving artists will work autonomously. Two of the works, cloth/field, and public choreographer #231, will happen in tandem. Social practice choreographer and our founder lauri stallings retired from performing with Hubbard St. Dance Chicago 15 years ago. stallings will return for this one and only action; as a narrator of communion.
The Warmth-Time capsule (machine) + People Parade
Feb 15
5pm

glo is burying a bundle of small relics, notes, seeds, and sculpture for composing of Warmth-Time capsule (machine) on the grounds of the Goat Farm. Join us for the last People Parade to the site.