Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design and Dance Professor Norah Zuniga Shaw (ZShaw) copes with the anxiety and fury of climate change and social injustice with the familiarity of making performance work. The Wexner Center for the Arts commissioned a virtual residency from ZShaw to open with the United Nations Climate Change Conference in November 2021 and continue with public events in 2022. The online project will feature several collaborators including Bryon Au Young, André M. Zachery, Charles Vincent Burwell, LROD, and Michael J. Morris.
"This project comes out of a pivotal period in 2015” says ZShaw, "during which I began confronting my fear and rage around climate change and social injustice by using what I know as a maker—interweaving improvisation, multimedia performance, and intersectional community building to bring a sense of poetics to the discussion—an embodied way to engage the magnitude of the issues. Resisting overwhelming narratives of disaster, this series holds space for breakdown and breakthrough, hospice and healing, human and more-than-human."
