New Intervention: an arabesque in histories at Historic Zero Mile Post.
OPENING Sunday, January 28 at 4pm
Downtown Atlanta
free and public

glo offers a new site-based intervention at The Zero Mile Post, the oldest landmark in Atlanta. an arabesque in histories elicits choreography to demonstrate a compelling and nuanced need to use the archival materials on site as a way for systems and actions to be poetic connectors to serve citizens of today.

The title of the project refers to experimental novelist Evelyn Scott’s work,”Migration.” One of a trilogy of works that portrays the intricacy of the South without sentimentality nostalgia or a hint of Southern apology, this publication is considered an important work in sociology and Deep South History. Inspired by Scott’s sociological studies, the intervention will feature a series of response choreographies by conceptual artist and choreographer Lauri Stallings. Like Scott, Stallings is invested in the possibility of getting connected with ourselves, our stories, passions, weaknesses. Stallings has collaborated with numerous sites and communities with complicated histories, and this project has grown organically from that deep work.

The Atlanta Zero Mile Post stands as a reminder of the birth of the city of Atlanta. Established in 1847, the granite sculpture is currently locked away in a vacant building with a wooden wagon installed next to it, in the basement of a disused parking garage in Downtown Atlanta.

Daily Downtown choreography interventions, Monday through Friday, January 29-February 3. Public Forum Saturday, February 3 at 2:30pm.

Write us with questions: info@gloatl.org

Featuring all new works, many of which will be created on site with female moving artists Kristina Brown, Cara Celeste, Virginia Coleman, Christina Kelly, Katherine Maxwell, Mandi Mpezo, phaemonae and Mechelle Tunstall, an arabesque in histories marks glo’s ongoing investment into the relationship between movement, time, place and sensation.

In collaboration with ThreadATL and Georgia State University Department of Archeology.