In the shadow of the pandemic the distances of our internal worlds collapsed as we experienced isolation, while the space between each other grew and in doing so new relations between our bodies, understanding, and the ever-changing were brought to light. In that yawn between ourselves a fracture in our normative modes of meaning making, opened up. We may have had to find new ways to understand our relationships and to cultivate them, in isolation we may have had to make space for ourselves to struggle and understand shifts in our internal worlds, and we bore witness to new imaginaries of the future. PRECEDENT then is meant to be a space held to leverage the artistic vision against those collective and individual experiences and to use performance as catharsis, sight, and potentiality. By bringing together a group of artists to explore themes of impermanence, the body, and understanding we hope to elevate a contemplative space where we can collectively process and reimagine that distance between each other and in ourselves.
Curators: Agua Dulce and Kunst
GABY FERNANDEZ
Gabriela Fernandez was born in Havana, Cuba. Currently residing in Miami, Florida, an area that houses various cross-sections of culture through the Latinx and Caribbean diaspora. As a first-generation immigrant taking reference from this multicultural, temporal and migratory space. Exploring the process of dis-identification, and the existence of manifested identifications in relation to time, ephemeral space and the disorientated body. Exploring the dis-identification of the existence of an identity with the intersection of both trauma and nostalgia in contemporary language Looking at how the environment and unconscious movements affect interaction between all.
MORIR SOÑANDO
Two individual artists that as a collaborative seek to explore relationships, needing people, walking away from people, and pulling them towards you. Using their bodies and movements the artists evoke great violence and tenderness.
SLIC
Slic, the moniker of Brooklyn-by-way-of-Miami’s Cami Dominguez, is a friendly presence in the electronic underground. In 2018, Dominguez moved to Brooklyn to work in art only to drop out of the gallery world and begin making DIY music with an ever-expanding cast of collaborators. Pulling from their own geography during the songwriting process, they look to the structural threads of Venezuelan music not found in the sample library. Their live instrumentation melds seamlessly with percussive, heavily affected digital productions.
AMAL ROGERS
Amal Rogers makes performance and teaches movement to empower people toward greater connection with self and other. Her making and teaching are interdependent. Both are informed by peoples liberation movements. Her performance work is often irreverent, comedic, and cathartic. Rogers is influenced by blackness, herself, her mother, the other, what she thinks the other thinks, Instagram, the labor of parenting, and the communities in which she lives. Amal strives to work within an ethic of love. She has received some degrees and has been awarded some money and some residencies. She has presented performance in physical spaces around the world and on the Internet. She is based in Miami, Florida.
KUNST
KUNST is an artist born in South Florida and currently based in Miami, Florida. Self-taught, they began their practice in the nightlife circuit looking to performance as a means of catharsis. Their work is overtly political, erotic, autobiographical and confrontation. Moving from performance into illustration they began utilizing sculpture and painting as well as a means within their work. Never adhering to genre however, KUNST’s pieces occupy a transdisciplinary position.
NADIA WOLFF
Nadia Wolff is a Haitian-american artist, designer, writer, and a U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts from Miami, Florida. They studied Textiles and Literary Arts in the Brown | RISD Dual Degree program and fuck heavy with that story about the Black girl whose skin changes pattern and color because she refused to eat her lima beans.
JENNA BALFE
Jenna Balfe is an artist/musician and activist from Miami. Balfe graduated from the University of Massachusetts in Sustainability Studies and Dance in 2011. In 2017 Balfe received a Master of Science from Pratt University in Dance Movement Therapy. Through her studies, Balfe uses a scientific and emotional perspective to approach the human relationship to self, each other, and nature. In her recent and unfolding fantastical performative narrative "Transnaturism" she questions the idea of human belonging and agency in relation to the existential value of the natural world. She currently is holding Bodymovement Classes, which have been ongoing since 2012. Currently, classes are focused on "Repatriating to the Earth" a chapter of "Transnaturism" that continues the exploration of human belonging through the development of a community garden/outdoor performance space and performances (TBA) at The Historic Virginia Key Beach Park. "Repatriating to the Earth" won a grant in 2020 through Oolite Arts that will culminate in several performances in 2022.
AGUA DULCE
Agua Dulce is a neurodivergent and transfluid artist based out of Miami. They hold degrees in Psychology and Art History, and their practice has been informed through self-taught and self-explored methods. They reject the hierarchy of “fine art” and prefer to utilize organic (fruit, plants, water), mundane, and easily accessible materials for their sculptures and performances; elevating the experiences of the everyday person and furthering the Latin American concept of magical realism. They perform sound healing for those needing reconnection with their soul and create intentional body adornments (as jewelry and tattoos) to remind folx of their personal strength in transforming their realities, assisting them in aligning their future with their desires and needs.
NICOLE COMBEAU
I am a community photographer, trauma-informed expressive art educator, and performance artist living and working in Miami, Florida. At the root of my work is using the expressive arts as a conduit for release, change and growth. I am currently a resident teaching artist at Arcola Public Library with ProjectArt, Andover Middle School with Arts for Learning, and at Beacon Prep with the Healing and Justice Center.
BOTTOM TEXT
BOTTOM TEXT formed in 2017 when Sam was invited to play the International Noise Conference by Miami Girls Rock Camp mentor Emlie Milgrim. Still in high school, they assembled a group of friends - Ray, Milly, Maggie, and Misha to develop and perform a group performance highly focused on interaction.
CARO ROBLES
Caro Robles was brought up in Miami, FL and spends most of their time exploring and taking photos of the natural world around them. In terms of their performative work they look for innovative ways to convey messages to the people around them by creating a physical connection between people’s stories and the weight or gravity that it has on people.