Eli Nixon: DIY Primordial Futurism: An flamboyant invitation to celebrate horseshoe crabs and deep time
Join suitcase theater artist and rabble rouser Eli Nixon to explore what and how to celebrate so as to survive for 450 million years (or at least tomorrow!). This is an all-ages invitation to sample this DIY holiday in homage to horseshoe crabs (“Bloodtide”) that has been hatching out across the continent and in particular, along the east coast where horseshoe crabs abound, or used to… Audiences will be invited into low-stakes opportunities for participation including naturedrag, comics drawing, fabric handling and singing crabaoke (power ballads with altered lyrics about crabs!).
Poncili Creación: Dirty Laughing Molecules
Forcibly caught in a traffic jam the audience will fall witness to life and death in ginormous proportions thru the windshield, a warped mirror of reality.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
ELI NIXON builds portals and gives guided tours to places that don’t yet exist, or exist but call for creative intervention. They are a settler-descended transqueer clown, a cardboard constructionist, and a maker of plays, puppets, pageants, parades, suitcase theaters & low-tech public spectaculah. Eli collaborates with artists, activists, schools, mental health and recovery centers, libraries and the more-than-human world to expand imaginative capacity and build muscles for collective liberation. Eli concocts installations, flotillas and performances on beaches, parking lots and stages.They delight in amateur flag dancing, naturedrag, and DIY festoonery. Eli is a Rhode Islander living on Narragansett land. They are a New Georges affiliated artist, an organizer with Showing Up for Racial Justice- RI, and part of the queer clown collective, ‘brotherdykes unlimited.’ BLOODTIDE is Eli’s illustrated manual for celebrating a new holiday in homage to horseshoe crabs, available through The 3rd Thing Press. Everyone is invited!
PONCILI CREACIÓN is a puertorican performance duo that focuses around their foam rubber sculptures, to create activities based on the concepts of Raw Magic and Beautiful Nothingness. These sculptures created to be manipulated by the human body or parts of it, some as small as a cherries, others as large as trees, are tools for creating whimsical power that stains reality.
CREDITS:
DIY Primordial Futurism: This project has been supported by billions of organisms and organizations. Thanks to all my friends and fellow celebrants especially Anne De Marken and The 3rd Thing Press, Una Chaudhuri, Karen Bolender, Fresh Ground Pepper, New Georges, Andrew Neisler, Rebecca Noon, Jed Brainard, Anisa George, and my heroic offspring, Ida Rye Marcus. Crabaoke; Matt Derby and Jacob Richman.
