https://estherneff.wordpress.com/2018/01/25/muscular-bonding/
MUSCULAR BONDING: February 15-March 5
On Thursday, February 15, a group of artists (Esther Neff, Kaia Gilje, Adriana Disman, Nina Isabelle and 3dwardsharp) will leave Brooklyn and drive together to St. Louis, MO.
Between February 15 and 28, we will live in St. Louis, performing construction labor (drywall and flooring, other demo and rehab) of a building that is becoming MARSH (Materializing and Activating Radical Social Habitus). The MARSH project is a liberation lab (including performance space and permaculture site) begun in December, 2017 by Beth Neff in collaboration with her daughter, (MUSCULAR BONDING conceptualizer/coordinator) Esther Neff. During the period of labor at MARSH, the MUSCULAR BONDING team will work, live, and eat together. Through the conflicts and constructivity of such collective life practice, we will devise a durational performance work translating labor actions, interactions, conversations and gestures into scores for building a smaller, semi-permanent sculptural work through movement and action.
On February 28 we will drive to Tulsa, OK to perform this βmodelβ work, with materials sourced from the construction processes at MARSH and an array of actions and building processes to perform across and throughout three days as part of the New Genre Arts Festival at Living Arts Tulsa. The performance at Living Arts begins physically on Friday and continues until Sunday evening.
