PRESENT CONTINUOUS
24h Performance Festival
Saturday & Sunday July 22-23, 10a-10p
Durational performances by:
Kite (AKA Dr. Suzanne Kite), Emilio Rojas, Esther Neff, Arantxa Araujo, Lina Azalea Dahbour, Amalya Megerman, Michael Delia and Charles Dennis (with Sal Cataldi)
Organized by Lital Dotan
“The past co-exists along with the present” -Henri Bergson
Present Continuous is a summer festival of durational performance art works, each 3-24h long. This program is part of Upstate Art Weekend 2024.
It is a chorus of singularities embodying stories told and retold. It is a festival of new site specific works, rooted in past othernesses. Viscerally- You will smell the underground, you will see roots and their dissolution, there will be acts of uprooting and rerooting. In this field of movement, there will be shared joy and offerings of music or food. It is a celebration of the Present Continuous. A performance story in the making.
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This program is free and open to the public, with suggested donation to support the artists
Present Continuous Festival is part of a year long theme that looks at the metaphysics of performance time. A cross-generational trans cultural attempt to discuss aspects of longevity and survival of a performance practice. It is a collective meditation on what it looks like to carry the weight of immaterial, taking on changing forms and methodologies of connecting past and future through space, as a collective learning of artistic unknowing.
Esther Marveta Neff 
