Sight/Geist Series
GOODW.Y.N.: Labor & Rest
Performance & Discussion
Thursday, December 14, 2023
6-8pm
The 8th Floor
17 W 17th Street, NYC
Image courtesy of the artist.
Nicole Goodwin aka GOODW.Y.N.’s Labor & Rest is a movement- and instruction-based performance considering ideas of work in relation to large, Black, queer, disabled bodies, and the broader “working till you drop” expectations of productivity in an ableist society.
This program is part of the second season of Sight/Geist, a series at The 8th Floor that supports local emerging film and performance artists. Doors will open at 6pm with The House Edge partially on view. The performance will begin by 6:30pm, to be followed by an artist discussion and Q&A led by Anjuli Nanda Diamond, Executive Director of the Foundation. All of our events are free and open to the public, with RSVPs encouraged. Navigate here for information about visiting and accessing our space. Email us with any questions.
Nicole Goodwin aka GOODW.Y.N. is the winner of the LMCC Creative Engagement Grant for 2023. They are also a 2022-23 Franklin Furnace Fund Recipient, semifinalist for the Headlands 2023 Chamberlain Award, finalist for the CUE Foundation’s 2022 Public Programs Fellowship, as well as the 2018 Ragdale Alice Judson Hayes Fellowship Recipient, while advancing to the 2nd Round of the 2018 Creative Capital Awards. They published the articles “Talking with My Daughter…” and “Why is this Happening in Your Life…” in the New York Times’ parent blog Motherlode. Additionally, their work Ain’t I a Woman (?/!): Poems was longlisted for the Black Spring Press Group’s Christopher Smart-Joan Alice Prize in 2020.
Image description: A Black person with buzzed hair and am arm tattoo is mostly covered with a large gray blanket, sleeping on a white mattress in an otherwise empty gray room.