September 7, 2024, 6:30PM
PERFORMANCE | COMPOSITION | POETRY
A multidisciplinary work that reimagines pansori, a traditional Korean musical form that combines improvisation, song, story, and gesture.
September 7, 2024, 6:30PM
PERFORMANCE | COMPOSITION | POETRY
A multidisciplinary work that reimagines pansori, a traditional Korean musical form that combines improvisation, song, story, and gesture.
An IGNITE Series PVD+ Project
Conceived and Created by Mary-Kim Arnold MFA ‘98 (writer, artist, and educator) and Bonnie Han Jones PhD ‘25 (Providence-based composer and writer)
Courtyards: Pansori Loop
September 7, 2024, 6:30PM
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Fishman Studio
In a collaboration between artist Mary-Kim Arnold and composer Bonnie Han Jones, Courtyards: Pansori Loop presents an immersive installation and performance experience that reimagines the traditional Korean art of pansori, a musical genre that incorporates song, story, and gesture alongside elements of improvisation and audience engagement. As the central hub of traditional Korean home and family life, mandang, the courtyard, often served as a performance site and gathering place. By situating these musical and performative experiments imaginatively in these interstices, Courtyards: Pansori Loop gestures toward the blurring of boundaries — between domestic and public space, private selves and public performance, between the scripted and the improvisational, traditional and experimental.
The installation will be open from 4:00PM-6:00PM followed by a 6:30PM performance and reception to follow.
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Reserve your free tickets for Courtyards: Pansori Loop.
Bonnie and Mary-Kim lying on white fabric with red text projected on surface.
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Bonnie as a child with shadow of adult Bonnie.
About the Artists
Courtesy of the artistMary-Kim Arnold
Mary-Kim Arnold is a writer, artist, and educator. She currently serves as Dean of the Faculty & Academic Affairs at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is the author of The Fish & The Dove (Noemi Press) and Litany for the Long Moment (Essay Press). Mary-Kim is the recipient of the 2020 Howard Foundation Fellowship, the 2018 MacColl Johnson Fellowship, and the 2017 Fellowship in Fiction from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. She serves as Senior Editor for Collaborative & Cross-Disciplinary Texts at Tupelo Quarterly. In 2021, she was appointed by the Governor to serve on the Board of the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. Adopted from Korea and raised in New York, Mary-Kim lives in Rhode Island with her husband and children. https://mkimarnold.com/
Courtesy of the artistBonnie Han Jones
Bonnie Han Jones is a Korean-American improvising musician, poet, and performer working with electronic sound and text. She performs solo and in numerous collaborative music, film, and visual art projects. Bonnie was a founding member of the Transmodern Festival and CHELA Gallery and is currently a member of the High Zero Festival collective. In 2010, along with Suzanne Thorpe she co-founded TECHNE, https://technesound.org/, an organization that develops anti-racist, feminist workshops that center on technology-focused art making, improvisation, and community collaboration. She has received commissions from the London ICA and Walters Art Museum and has presented her work extensively at institutions in the US, Mexico, Europe and Asia. Bonnie was a 2018 recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. Born in South Korea she was raised on a dairy farm in New Jersey, and currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland and Providence RI on the lands of the Susquehannock, Piscataway, Algonquian, and Narragansett. https://bonnie-jones.com/
With support from CSREA Graduate Student Research Grant and the Department of Music, MMC Program.
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