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Inhabit

December 22, 20241:30 am - 1:30 am

Inhabit

July 23 – August 4

163 Main Street, Biddeford, ME

By chance or appointment

Inhabit is a performance installation resulting from a visiting artist residency engagement in collaboration with Subcircle to support the site specific work of 3 artists focused on transformation.

Workshop 3-6pm
Lizzy Mulkey, Heather Lyon and JoAnna Mendl Shaw are all artists whose work focuses on embodied transformations, be it in Shaw’s interspecies works with horses and dancers, Lyons immersive visual installations and performances and Mulkey’s choreographic films. The three artists join forces to guide participants through a process of deeply embodied decision-making and creative exploration that begins with body scans and multi-sensory listening, continues into an expansive exploration of non-verbal collaboration and culminates in each participant creating a fabric and random-objects sculpture-costume that leads to embodied inhabiting.

Performance 6-7pm
Interested participants may join Lizzy Mulkey, Heather Lyon and JoAnna Mendl Shaw in a movement installation performance that will progress down the Main Street of Biddeford and explore the riverside terrain

Check these artists out on instagram to learn more about their work and the process behind this collaboration:
JoAnna Medhel Shaw – @equus_projects_nyc
Heather Lyons – @_heatherlyon
Liz Mulkey –  @lizzymulkey

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