MJR(Marbles Jumbo Radio) they/he is a dancer and visual artist born 1979, in Paterson New Jersey.
They are currently based on unseated Iriquios land and Canarsi-Lenape lands in New York City
making works that are a confluence of practices in performance, video, ceramics, objects, text, and installation.
They are currently based on unseated Iriquios land and Canarsi-Lenape lands in New York City
making works that are a confluence of practices in performance, video, ceramics, objects, text, and installation.
danced like a verb, like an utterance..
Artist Statement
I contextualize my work within the domains of installation and choreography.
I have a life long relationship to dance and object making conjured through a deep relation to choreography and embodied research with archives of the queer and marginalized as well as ancestral and dream- realm vaccilation. I work, in this way, with movement as material, and as a
thinking tool. When engaged, choreography is a prismatic, multi sided, reflective, angular,
spacious, specific and magical tool. Dance is a resource. Ephemeral, sometimes magical, ever
unique, always specific- movement, like a sculpture or thing, is made of many sides sutured
together.
My projects take shape in varied forms- from live performance to installation.
I am always collaborating with other artists and participants. Practices evolve out
of thinking with concept through the body, tuning
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attention to what is arising in relationship to space and object. This feedback undergirds and efficiates a waxing capacity for thinking-by-way-of-moving to occur. Dancing is a form of energetic and rhythmic communication that has the capacity to be a political tool, resisting and recalling cultural machinations. I utilize this as faculty to address scopic norms and as a means to conjure communication between generations and transform culture. I am drawn to place as a
live player. Place informs what's possible and potentially works on the imagination. Like a body, a place bears a memory of its own. I am interested in what places remember, and I see dance as a way to contact the interiority of the body and place, a process by which the body and mind tune together, capaciating dimension whereby alterities may seek expression and refuge inside or outside normative socio-spatial shifts. Dancing is a listening process that capaciates dimension for powerful transmission to occur.
attention to what is arising in relationship to space and object. This feedback undergirds and efficiates a waxing capacity for thinking-by-way-of-moving to occur. Dancing is a form of energetic and rhythmic communication that has the capacity to be a political tool, resisting and recalling cultural machinations. I utilize this as faculty to address scopic norms and as a means to conjure communication between generations and transform culture. I am drawn to place as a
live player. Place informs what's possible and potentially works on the imagination. Like a body, a place bears a memory of its own. I am interested in what places remember, and I see dance as a way to contact the interiority of the body and place, a process by which the body and mind tune together, capaciating dimension whereby alterities may seek expression and refuge inside or outside normative socio-spatial shifts. Dancing is a listening process that capaciates dimension for powerful transmission to occur.
like a tool.
2020
April 26 6pm New York Showing of new work in progress at Weis Acres Studio: http://www.cathyweis.org/weisacres/sundays-on-broadway/ POSTPONED
Feb 16 10-2pm
17 2-6pm Los Angeles “Moving Backwards” performance at JOAN http://joanlosangeles.org/
2019
April 26 6pm New York Showing of new work in progress at Weis Acres Studio: http://www.cathyweis.org/weisacres/sundays-on-broadway/ POSTPONED
Feb 16 10-2pm
17 2-6pm Los Angeles “Moving Backwards” performance at JOAN http://joanlosangeles.org/
2019
November 22-24 Venice, Italy “Moving Backwards” Venice Biennal / Closing Performances and Boudry/Lorenz Catalogue Release
https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/288904/pauline-boudry-renate-lorenzmoving-backward
October 30 New York “Moving Backwards” performance and book launch at Swiss Institute:
https://www.swissinstitute.net/event/book-launch-moving-backwards-with-pauline-boudry-renate-lorenz-and-marbles-jumbo-radio/
https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/288904/pauline-boudry-renate-lorenzmoving-backward
October 30 New York “Moving Backwards” performance and book launch at Swiss Institute:
https://www.swissinstitute.net/event/book-launch-moving-backwards-with-pauline-boudry-renate-lorenz-and-marbles-jumbo-radio/