"Beyond the straight-forward documentation of the process, this film also captures a multiplicitous 'process,' 'getting out of the shpiel,' rewiring and rewriting ideas I've worked through for several years into a version of where I'm at in relation to this land, this history and this diasporic experience, weaving in the voices of the multitalented curatorial, movement, textile, audio-visual and production collaborators with who helped shape Venus Flytrap through rich cross-pollination."
"From the posed elegance that starts the performance, Venus Flytrap grows into a carnivalesque frolic that ends with the performers receding into a large tree surrounded by sail-like colorful printed fabrics that the artist created at the city's Fabric Workshop and Museum,"
"It was a thrill to co-direct this film with Joiri and have the camera capture her gaze as she navigated a process that was completely new and experimental."
Joiri Minaya staged Venus Flytrap, a site-specific performance series and installation at Philadelphia's Bartram's Garden. Dessane Lopez Cassell curated the series to reflect on intertwined legacies of freedom, extraction, and ecology in North America's oldest surviving botanical garden. The film, co-directed by Joiri Minaya and Xenia Matthews, documents the creation and performance of the work and captures a multiplicitous process that rewires and rewrites longstanding ideas in relation to land, history, and diasporic experience. The performances move from posed elegance into a carnivalesque frolic, concluding with performers receding into a tree framed by sail-like printed fabrics made at the Fabric Workshop and Museum. Production was by BlackStar Projects with major support from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage and additional support from the William Penn Foundation.
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