Image shows a stage performance in a proscenium theatre. A dark brown shorter haired Blk woman, wearing dark blue coveralls, is standing in the center on stage with a projected backdrop of a crisp blue sky with clouds. Her body faces the audience, whilst she looks towards her right, and her left foot hooks the right ankle. There are several long ropes hanging from above, and she is illuminated by multiple warm toned stage lights. A duo of collaborators sit on red cushions upstage left with their electronic sound tools sat on low tables around them. The floor has a large-scale mandala-like pattern as part of the stage design.

cat mahari

A composite of four images representative of the artists recent work are arranged in a quadrant. Overall, the frame is filled with black, greyscale, earthtones, and greens. In the upper left: An image of the artist's body draped over a metal crowd control barrier as though they are riding a horse. The gesture, set at the corner of an old stone fortress. On the upper right: the same metalic crowd control barrier is cut into small portions and held, considered both in the haptic sense of touch and through the sense of machine vision surveillance which it is seen—in a series of increasingly pixilated images. In the bottom left corner: The same machine vision surveillance simulator image is seen, greyscale pixilation specifically, though this time applied to two horses grazing in ghostly digital pasture. Finally, in the lower right: The artists hands reach into the frame holding a melting ice cast of a portion of the crowd control barrier seen in the image above. The ice melts slowly in grass illuminated by the sun as well as the warmth from the artists hands.

Courtney Mackedanz

An individual dancer in jeans and a white t-shirt seemingly flies mid-air over a public square outdoors in Prague.He stretches out his arms while his braids fly outward.

Jarius “ManOfGod” King

A solo dancer in performance. She wears a red blazer and raises one arm overhead.

Keyierra Collins

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A dancer outdoors under a blue sky. They wear a taupe tunic, close their eyes, and stretch one arm forward and the other back.

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