Responses on Survival Postures have been incredible! Around twenty folks from Cleveland and beyond jumped head first into this social experiment, and have taken on some amazing projects.
Cleveland puppeteer Diana Sette worked with a master weaver to learn how to process and spin wool, and built a large-scale “human loom” made out of people. Emelio DiSabato and Joel Solow chipped away at snow on the Abbey Bridge in Tremont, attempting to clear a path on one of the two walkways into their neighborhood that becomes unpassable to pedestrians and cyclists after snow, often for days on end. Simon and Giulia, members of a new farm collective in New York state, began the process of brewing a cup tea from scratch and spent the month learning how you decide what trees in a healthy woodland can be harvested for firewood and how to use a chainsaw. Maria Miranda, of Cleveland’s Whisper to a Scream, translated the assignment into what it takes to survive within culture as it currently stands. She spent the month being “beauty-compliant,” wearing makeup and fashionable clothes, processing her hair, and consuming the media and products marketed to her to craft a “successful look”. Several people learned how to sew for the first time, Carmen Tracey making homemade menstrual pads after researching the toxicity of feminine hygiene products.
These folks and many more will show their stuff at the Survival Postures community dinner and exhibit held at SPACES on Sunday, March 20 at 5:30 pm. Come be a part of it!
