The Wreck was a collaborative performance event instigated by MFA graduate m.a. brooks, Hien Huynh, Alyssa Burton and myself. It investigates the intersections of post-racial and environmental crisis and is part of m.a.’s ongoing Improvising While Black (Check m.a.’s blog at http://adddance.tumblr.com/) project which examines how African Americans use improvisation as a tool for survival.
Within this process I asked “what does it do to rest in the hull of the slave ship?”
How am I as a white Canadian living in the US always already in relation to the slave ship? How does whiteness as a structuring force shape my own sense-abilities? Where do my own privileges rest in relation to this collaboration?
