Scratch Night – September 2024

THE LINEUP

Frank Jurden/Jack Minor 
Frank Jurden and Jack Minor share excerpts from an ongoing project melding live instrumental soundtracks with silent film shorts.

Kennedy Banks/Malik Battle – Movement House
Charlotte Street Studio Resident choreographer/performer Kennedy Banks and KCAI animator/illustrator Malik Battle together form collaborative duo Movement House: “The eye of the storm is one of the calmest, most beautiful parts – eerie, quiet, almost too good to be true. See through the eye that although there is promise of danger and chaos, we can take solace in its temporary-ness.”

Laetitia Hohenberg/Calvin Arsenia – “The Fragility of Things”
Visual and performance artist Laetitia Hohenberg is accompanied by Calvin Arsenia on a selection from new work ‘The Fragility of Things’. A journey into the unreal, Laetitia uses her sculptures as participants endowed with personality and corporeal entity. With both formed and raw clay, the piece explores transformation, regeneration, and reincarnation. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, we take on different forms but our essence remains the same.

Katie Brennan – ‘Snaking Through’
Choreographer Katie Brennan, with film and dance collaborators, will share a portion of ‘Snaking Through’, an in-progress dance film created along the Blue River throughout its seasons. A segment of newly edited footage will be shown in conjunction with two live performers supporting the landscape in embodied form, and bringing the audience closer to the Blue River.

ABOUT BORDERLANDSKC

A new cutting-edge live + digital arts incubator, borderlandsKC presents adventurous projects expanding Kansas City’s spectrum for artistic invention. Led by Jay Gilman, a recently-returned KC native, Jay spent more than a decade as a curator, producer, and civic practice artist in Minneapolis and Philadelphia.