If you are near Miami during Art Basel week, there is going to be an absolutely phenomenal artist doing a performance about sugar cane. Please find @amabefree on Instagram and see the original post: https://www.instagram.com/p/CWp9AvDltSZ/
My upcoming performance is a two day durational performance centered on sugarcane, as both delight and vice.
The performance title bĆŖte noire, or āblack beastā in French, a term that refers to an object of aversion,ā a thorn in oneās side, sits in contrast to the irony of sugarcaneās sweetness. Its soundscape draws from archives related to the cultivation and commercial success of sugar. Using black (red) sugarcane as a reference to flesh, blood and bone, the performance interrogates commodification and intercedes on behalf of the plantās sacred nature. Recognizing the many residents of Miami who come from sugarcane growing countries, bĆŖte noire invites the public to act as voluntary intercessors through acts of adornment. The public will be invited to thread handmade black cane beads onto a necklace as a nod to Ghanaian traditional beads adornment practices. My invented sugarcane beads visually reference vulcanite beads from Ghana (second photo) made of recycled vinyl and whose original form are these handmade coconut beads (third photo)
bĆŖte noire will be performed as a part of an extraordinary line up of artists at Satellite Art Show 2021 during Art Basel week, Miami. If you can, come through! āØDec. 3rd and 4thāØ āØ1655 Meridian Avenue,Miami, FL 33139.āØ
