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DISCOTROPIC ain't free!
DISCOTROPIC is the brain child of niv Acosta, a native new yorker and transgender queer artist of color, and has taken on many lives through episodical performances in New York and Philadelphia. DISCOTROPIC has premiered eariler incarnations as a commission of New Museum for their 2015 Triennial 'Surround Audience', and premiered a later version for the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art for their Soul of Brooklyn Festival 2015.
DISCOTROPIC is slated to premiere a new episode as part of PS 122's COIL festival opening January 5th 2016.
The peope involved in DISCOTROPIC are predominantly identified as black and share an interest in queer and afro futurity. We are all also citizens within an economy which deliberately disinvests in art by and for people of color. It is through the continued support of our community that we are able to move our work in the direction it deserves. We need you to join us in support of work which seeks to create space for those of a marginalized experience.
Description of the work:
In his new performance DISCOTROPIC (2015), niv Acosta explores the relationship between science fiction, disco, astrophysics, and the black American experience. Reflecting the artist’s interest in the role of black presence in sci-fi history, DISCOTROPIC is inspired by actor Diahann Carroll, who starred in the TV movie Star Wars Holiday Special (1978). Cast by NBC at the behest of donors and audience members, who insisted that a black person appear on the show, Carroll appears only as a holographic fantasy—an illusion that distills the ways in which the black female body has been consumed in mass media: as alien, bodacious, and marginalized. Acosta’s DISCOTROPIC reconsiders past futures, like those in Star Wars, while claiming a fantastical site of possibility through a cast whose imaginative engagement with science fiction rewrites its dominant narratives. Assembled by Acosta on the basis of shared interests in queer politics and Afrofuturism, the performers include Monstah Black, Justin Allen, Ashley Brockington, and Acosta himself.
What your generosity will go towards:
Costume design, set design, sound design and video documentation of the upcoming show, along with GoFundMe fees.
DISCOTROPIC is the brain child of niv Acosta, a native new yorker and transgender queer artist of color, and has taken on many lives through episodical performances in New York and Philadelphia. DISCOTROPIC has premiered eariler incarnations as a commission of New Museum for their 2015 Triennial 'Surround Audience', and premiered a later version for the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art for their Soul of Brooklyn Festival 2015.
DISCOTROPIC is slated to premiere a new episode as part of PS 122's COIL festival opening January 5th 2016.
The peope involved in DISCOTROPIC are predominantly identified as black and share an interest in queer and afro futurity. We are all also citizens within an economy which deliberately disinvests in art by and for people of color. It is through the continued support of our community that we are able to move our work in the direction it deserves. We need you to join us in support of work which seeks to create space for those of a marginalized experience.
Description of the work:
In his new performance DISCOTROPIC (2015), niv Acosta explores the relationship between science fiction, disco, astrophysics, and the black American experience. Reflecting the artist’s interest in the role of black presence in sci-fi history, DISCOTROPIC is inspired by actor Diahann Carroll, who starred in the TV movie Star Wars Holiday Special (1978). Cast by NBC at the behest of donors and audience members, who insisted that a black person appear on the show, Carroll appears only as a holographic fantasy—an illusion that distills the ways in which the black female body has been consumed in mass media: as alien, bodacious, and marginalized. Acosta’s DISCOTROPIC reconsiders past futures, like those in Star Wars, while claiming a fantastical site of possibility through a cast whose imaginative engagement with science fiction rewrites its dominant narratives. Assembled by Acosta on the basis of shared interests in queer politics and Afrofuturism, the performers include Monstah Black, Justin Allen, Ashley Brockington, and Acosta himself.
What your generosity will go towards:
Costume design, set design, sound design and video documentation of the upcoming show, along with GoFundMe fees.
Organizer and beneficiary
niv Acosta
Beneficiary