UNFIX NYC 2017 (April 28-29)
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We finished this year's festival!
Please enjoy the documentation of the festival! UNFIX Festival started in Glasgow (Scotland) in 2015, created by performing artist and Butoh dancer Paul Michael Henry. This will be the second year that Ren Gyo Soh will collaborate with UNFIX in NYC. The goal is to unravel the knots in how we’re living: ecological crisis and renewal addressed through our bodies and physical sense of living. |
Photos by Keelie Sheridan
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Why have a festival of Performance and Ecology?
Ecology is perhaps the grand theme of our times, uniting issues of climate change, sustainability, political independence / inter-dependence, and the various flows of ageing and death, economics, culture and emotion. Rather than restricting itself to ‘environmental art’, UNFIX chooses a broad definition of the term including ecologies of:
• Imagination and Culture (the ideas, myths, dreams and archetypes we live by)
• Politics & Economics
• Environment
• Soul & Mental Health: the individual & collective psyche and questions of balance, physical maintenance and happiness; ecologies of emotion and the forces of love, conflict, anger, shame.
This wide net is intended as an offer to artists, activists, ecologists and others to find methods of rethinking human inter-relationships and environmental approaches through our physical sense of living, both in daily life and the concentrated forums of performance and culture.
How we can love each other more? How we can conceive of ourselves as more than cogs / competitors / applicants-to-life? How can we realize everything we encounter as parts of ourselves? We would like to learn from all of you, and share what we’ve learned.
We can no longer pretend to be separate from one another.
• Imagination and Culture (the ideas, myths, dreams and archetypes we live by)
• Politics & Economics
• Environment
• Soul & Mental Health: the individual & collective psyche and questions of balance, physical maintenance and happiness; ecologies of emotion and the forces of love, conflict, anger, shame.
This wide net is intended as an offer to artists, activists, ecologists and others to find methods of rethinking human inter-relationships and environmental approaches through our physical sense of living, both in daily life and the concentrated forums of performance and culture.
How we can love each other more? How we can conceive of ourselves as more than cogs / competitors / applicants-to-life? How can we realize everything we encounter as parts of ourselves? We would like to learn from all of you, and share what we’ve learned.
We can no longer pretend to be separate from one another.
- Paul Michael Henry, The Artistic Director of UNFIX
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This is a festival to create an awareness of ecology through performing arts, and we would like to create an opportunity for not only artistes, but all of us who live in this planet. I believe the power of love, power of art and what art can do for all living beings, for the land we live, and for the future generations. We can be the change we want to see in the world. And I would love to collaborate with as many people as possible. I hope see you in April.
–Yokko, The Artistic Director of Ren Gyo Soh
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Producers:
Yokko (Ren Gyo Soh) Keelie Sheridan (The Ume Group) Sean Carmichael (Grace & St. Paul Church) Associate Producers: Paul Michael Henry (UNFIX Festival) Pastor Martin Hauser (Grace & St. Paul Church) Assistant Producer: Rui Dun Technical Director: Robin Dill |
