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More footage of Exploring the Nowannago:Kentifrican Modes of Resistance performance. More angles are coming to light. 📸 by Downtown Santa Ana @tmostudio @grandcentralart #KenyattaACHinkle #TylerMatthewOyer #TheNowannago #TheDoubleNoose (at CSUF Grand Central Art Center)

More Exploring the Nowannago with Tyler Matthew Oyer @tmostudio. Performance score by KREation Ensemble @kreation_ensemble #TheNowannago #TheDoubleNoose #Kentifricanperformance #KenyattaACHinkle #TylerMatthewOyer (at CSUF Grand Central Art Center)

Last night's performance was insanely intense. Thank you to all who came out to show their love and support. I am still trying to process what happened. The witnesses who charged the space with their eyes, their tears and their powerful energy was unparalleled. Every time we visit this piece no one knows what will happen. The rope kept tightening internally and externally. There were a few children present and I could not help but think of the parents, cousins, aunts and uncles who brought children to lynchings as an outing. I kept thinking about the banality of evil. About the imagination and what a rope can become. No one knew what was going to happen. It was so powerful to explain the piece to a child who has been protesting with her mother for BLM. I told her that the double noose is like the tension between the Black community and the police and that with this piece we are just making that tension/rope visible and all of ropes that we wear with one another and history. So much about last night will stay with me forever. I cannot tell you how many times the exchange of appreciation for the witnessing and the actual movement of the performance flowed back between Tyler and I and those present. Every time we do the piece it becomes more layered, more complicated, more relevant and more needed. I am in awe that an idea in my head for six years came alive in this chaotic year. The work tells us what, when and how to do it. We only have to listen. Even if it terrifies us. Doing the piece is no easy undertaking and I am exhausted in so many ways. But I am alive and so many are not walking this earth anymore. This humbles me and inspires me to continue Exploring the Nowannago. @tmostudio @grandcentralart 📸 by Chelle Barbour @chelle.barbour #TheNowannago #Kentifricanperformance #KenyattaACHinkle #TylerMatthewOyer #GCAC (at CSUF Grand Central Art Center)

Excited for our performance of Exploring the Nowannago: Kentifrican Modes of Resistance this Saturday at The Grand Central Art Center in downtown Santa Ana! Tyler Matthew Oyer and I will be activating the exhibition in an intense, powerful and challenging way! Performance starts at 7:30pm show will be on view til early October! Hope to see you there!!!@tmostudio @grandcentralart @jenkinsjohnsongallery #KenyattaACHinkle #TylerMatthewOyer #Kentifrica #LAArtists #TheNowannago #Kentifricanperformance