fertilizing fire circle

The Environmental Performance Agency (EPA) is an artist collective founded in 2017 and named in response to the proposed defunding of the U.S. Environmental Protection .Our aim is to shift thinking around the terms environment, performance, and agency – using artistic, social, and embodied / kinesthetic practices to advocate for the agency of all living performers co-creating our environment, specifically through the lens of spontaneous urban plants, native or migrant. The current collective includes andrea haenggi, Catherine Grau, Christopher Kennedy, Ellie Irons and the spontaneous urban plants of 1067 Pacific Street, Brooklyn. http://www.environmentalperformanceagency.com/

The Environmental Performance Agency (EPA)

Fertilizing fire circle!
We invite you to join EPA collective’s night of embodied storytelling for decolonizing, healing and belonging within a multi-species future. Celebrate the final transformation of our rented garage and lot turned urban weeds ecosystem.**
Break the pavement. Practice primitive fire-starting. Whisper and listen to the flames to fertilize relationships with urban land. Bitch and dance to acknowledge the agency of urban weeds. Counter monoculture! Burn it down! Touch stillness. See time.
Beginning at dusk and continuing until midnight, the environment will be transformed into Soft-Precarious Openings by EPA artists Catherine Grau, Andrea Haenggi, Christopher Kennedy, Ellie Irons, and participating artists and storytellers: Carrie Ahern, Tara Daino, Nancye Good (fire bow drill teacher), Simone Johnson, Holes in the Walls Collective: Julia Meeks & Dhira Rauch, Cooper Miller, Robert Neuwirth, Lissette Olivares, Iele Paloumpis, Marýa Wethers (firekeeper), and Moira Williams, and nourishing bites and warming drinks inspired by recipe-stories from the neighbors on our block.
 
Registration is required. Please RSVP
Suggested donation $15 
Detailed schedule TBA
 
+++   Stay the full 7hrs to get fully fertilized for the next epoch!!  +++
** In 2013, artist Andrea Haenggi and writer Robert Neuwirth signed a 5-year lease for <A HREF="https://maps.google.com/?q=1067+Pacific+Street&entry=gmail&source=g" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">1067 Pacific Street</A>, a former auto-repair garage with a 1900 Sq Ft vacant lot in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, with the intent:
<UL>
<LI>to find LOVE in this contaminated urban feral landscape</LI>
<LI>if you enter the LAND of <A HREF="https://maps.google.com/?q=1067+Pacific+Street&entry=gmail&source=g" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">1067 Pacific Street</A>, you shape the artwork</LI>
<LI>the PLACE, <A HREF="https://maps.google.com/?q=1067+Pacific+Street&entry=gmail&source=g" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">1067 Pacific Street</A>, is the artwork itself</LI>
<LI>the artwork is the studio for Haenggi’s movement-based artist PRACTICE</LI>
<LI>to find an aesthetic in rawness and LABOR</LI>
<LI>in search of AGENCY for nonhuman life forms</LI>
<LI>to question VALUE in all its economic and philosophic meanings</LI>
</UL>
 The socially and ecologically engaged research and performance artwork, with its many public encounters, grew into the co-founding of the collaborative project Environmental Performance Agency (EPA) in March 2017.
On January 22, 2018 we must surrender the key.

1067 Pacific Street

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