Ada Pinkston MAWU… The end is the beginning is the End A durational performance in honor of Lucy Parsons

Using performance as ritual and ritual as performance, this eight-hour long performance will test the limitations of what it means to be a spectator, a creator, a passive consumer, and the limitations of language on universal experiences. The performance will end in a dance party from 9-10 PM.

A Statement from the Artist
We would not be where we are without protest, agitation, and struggle. Lucy Parsons was part of a group of people that fought to ensure that workers had rights. Together, they worked to ensure an eight-hour long workday. In honor of this woman, I am offering an eight-hour long performance.

Black lives matter, black herstory matters, black love matters, black health matters, and black joy matters.

At the top of each hour, please join me in a collective movement session where we will attempt to channel the strength of our ancestors and move together with the aim of transmitting some hope, justice, peace, and joy.

With the recognition of the fact that there are limitations to the ways that we can connect in these square boxes, know that you can come and go as you please.

This performance was not made for your passive consumption. This performance was made to be a ritual, a seance, to gather the strength of our ancestors who have died at the hand of state-sanctioned violence that many people still experience to this day.