MAPP: Our Built City: A Ritualistic Deconstruction of Our “Sculptural Housing” ft. SHORE: Story (A Curated Reading by Emily Johnson)

As part of the programming for the August 1st MAPP, the Red Poppy Art House and EDELO ‘Where the United Nations Used to Be’ invite the public for the closing ceremony of Our Built City, the miniature city thriving on our corner of 23rd & Folsom.

Over the past five months, Caleb Duarte and Mia Eve Rollow of EDELO have been in residence as Artistic Directors in Rotation at the Poppy. For their final curated MAPP, EDELO and collaborators occupy the center of the Art House to dig out the hidden histories buried beneath. Our Built City becomes mobile and begins to occupy spaces in the Mission with the transformation of two shopping carts into a miniature city on the move. Displayed on the Poppy’s interior gallery walls are works created on materials found throughout the district.

The evening features both large-scale and miniature paintings created by Our Built City participants, ranging from artists and immigrants to families and homeless neighbors. Emily Johnson/Catalyst also makes her return to the Bay Area with the premiere of SHORE, the final work in a trilogy that began with Bessie Award-winning The Thank-You Bar. A multi-part, multi-city project, SHORE explores the complex connotations of the place we call home, taking on questions of memory, ancestry, nature and community. In a curated reading (SHORE: Story), writers will present work that speaks to our inherent connection to and disconnection from home, place, land, and each other.

August 1st MAPP Schedule:

2:00pm – 5:00pm: Family Art
Mobilizing Our Built City with painted wooden panels and decorated shopping carts.

6:00pm – 7:30pm: Visual Art Exhibition
Display of Our Built City paintings on found wood created by artists, neighbors, children, immigrants, and the homeless. Featuring a painting by Citlalli Aguilar, a high school summer intern supported by Spotlight on the Arts (California Lawyers for the Arts).

6:00pm – 7:30pm: Bringing Out the Dirt
An ongoing performance featuring recent immigrants crawling out of the wooden floor as they move dirt from one place to another.

6:00pm – 10:00pm: Our Built City in the Mission
An ongoing performance carrying Our Built City throughout the Mission.

7:30pm – 7:50pm: Persian Trio Group
Persian folklore with classical, jazz, and flamenco influences. Performance by Emad Bonakdar (guitar), Dina Zarif (vocals), and Mohammad Hassanzadeh (Kamancheh, Persian stringed instrument).

8:00pm – 9:20pm: SHORE: Story
A curated reading by Emily Johnson featuring writers Em Reit, Daphne Gottlieb, Tria Wakpa Blu, and Wilfredo Pascual.

9:30pm – 10:00pm: Ampersan
Mexican folk & contemporary classical instrumentation.

More About SHORE

SHORE is a multi-day performance installation that celebrates the places where people meet and merge – land and water, performer and audience, art and community, past, present, and future. Over the course of a week, SHORE invites the audience to four equal parts: community action in partnership with community organizations, story (a curated reading), a performance that begins outdoors and moves into ODC Theater, and a festive potluck feast. Curated by Emily Johnson.

*Register/RSVP for the four parts of SHORE here: http://goo.gl/forms/YfjsMzNxyf

About Emily Johnson/Catalyst

Emily Johnson is an artist who makes body-based work. Originally from Alaska, she is currently based in Minneapolis. Since 1998 Johnson has been creating richly layered works that blur distinctions between performance and daily life. Her dances function as installations, engaging audiences within and through a space and environment — interacting with a place’s architecture, history and its role in community. Johnson is a recipient of a 2014 Doris Duke Artist Award. Her work is currently supported by Creative Capital, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, MAP Fund, a Joyce Award, the McKnight Foundation and the Doris Duke Residency to Build Demand for the Arts. Johnson is a current Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota, a 2014 Fellow at the Robert Rauschenberg Residency, a 2012 Headlands Center for the Arts  and MacDowell Artist in Residence, a Native Arts and Cultures Fellow for 2011, a MANCC Choreographer Fellow (2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016), a MAP Fund grant recipient (2009, 2010, 2012, and 2013) and a 2009 McKnight Fellow. She received a 2012 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award for Outstanding Performance for her work The ThankYou Bar at New York Live Arts.

About Ampersan

Ampersan integrates sounds of different ages, nationalities and poetries. Since their inception in 2007, Ampersan has been rooted in the traditional, acoustic-based music of Mexico while expanding their reach through forays into contemporary classical music and sound experimentation. Mixing prehispanic instruments such as clay ocarinas, colonial instruments like jaranas and violins, and African instruments such as the darbuka with the distortion of an electric guitar and synthesizers, Ampersan gathers together the feelings of peasant songs, son, psychedelic rock, and electronica.

Admission: Free.

Time: 2pm-10pm. All ages welcome.

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