BFI Presents: Jamilah Sabur- Beneath the rivers, there are no borders

BFIis an artist-run presenting organization dedicated to creativity, experimentation, and discourse in contemporary art. BFI creates a bridge between Miami and the international art world by curating programs featuring both local and global artists at sites throughout Miami-Dade County, and in collaboration with national and international partnering organizations. BFI fosters community by offering support for artist projects, through NOMADIC MIAMI, a site-specific curatorial platform through which we present exhibitions and public programming; and WEIRD MIAMI a series of artist-led tours that show locals and visitors Miami through artists’ eyes.BFI is an artist-run non-profit generously supported in part by a Knight Arts Challenge grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and with the support of The Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners, the City of Miami Beach, Cultural Affairs Program, Cultural Arts Council, the Cowles Charitable Trust and the Miami Downtown Development Authority. BFI's office and temporary exhibition space has been generously provided by Mana Contemporary Miami.

Bas Fisher Invitational (BFI)

"I found myself standing in a grassland near the São Francisco river in Brazil. João Guimarães Rosa took me there. Then, I heard the St. John's river in Florida crying, it was calling on the São Francisco. Now I'm in the saw palmetto of the Everglades, but below--beneath the rivers, there are no borders" (Sabur).  Beneath the rivers, there are no borders is a performance by Jamilah Sabur with music by The International Contemporary Ensemble. Divided into sequences, Sabur takes a formalist approach structuring her choreography based on the geographic spaces of the mouths of rivers in between terrestrial and marine environments. The St. Johns River in Florida is crying and calling on the São Francisco River in Brazil. With gestures occurring above the river and below, Sabur considers what it is to morph into sub-sonar soundwaves, used by sub-sonar profilers to detect reflections of waves off sediments and items on and below the seafloor. Collaborators include dancers: Roxana Barba and Grace Bishop; poet: Terri Witek; The International Contemporary Ensemble; and set designer Freddy Jouwayed.