Notes - HAFT-SEEN with Stacey Tran and Jonathan Raissi (trailer #3)

HAFT-SEEN Stacey Tran • Jonathan Raissi • Roland Dahwen Wu 7pm • 3.15.17 • High Low Gallery 936 SE 34th Ave, Portland, OR 97214 http://www.staceytran.com • http://www.jonathanraissi.com • https://www.rolanddahwen.com

Trailer #3

HAFT-SEEN
Stacey Tran • Jonathan Raissi • Roland Dahwen Wu
7pm • 3.15.17
High Low Gallery
936 SE 34th Ave, Portland, OR 97214

Notes - Field Theories (Samiya Bashir, with keyon gaskin)

I've been working on a series of short videos for Samiya Bashir's forthcoming book of poetry FIELD THEORIES. Samiya and I have worked together for the last few years, creating multimedia works for her project MAPS. For FIELD THEORIES, we filmed with keyon gaskin, an incredible movement artist with whom I've collaborated on the film QUARANTINE::duo. You can watch part one and two of our series of videos, below.

Movement by keyon gaskin. Produced by Patuá Films for Samiya Bashir's book FIELD THEORIES. Field Theories wends its way through quantum mechanics to chicken wings and Newports, love and a shoulder’s chill, melding blackbody theory (idealized perfect absorption, as opposed to the whitebody’s idealized reflection) with real live Black bodies. Albert Murray said, “the second law of thermodynamics ain’t nothing but the blues.” So what is the blue of how we treat each other, ourselves, of what this world does to us, of what we do to this shared world? Woven through experimental lyrics is a heroic crown of sonnets that wonders about love and intent, identity and hybridity, and how we embody these interstices and for what reasons and to what ends. These poems span lyric, narrative, dramatic, and multi-media experience, engaging their containers while pushing against their constraints. FIELD THEORIES, by Samiya Bashir Nightboat Books || 2.1.2017 Samiya Bashir’s previous books, including Gospel, Where the Apple Falls, and Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social & Political Black Literature & Art, exist. She makes poems of dirt, zeros & ones, text & light. She lives in Portland, Oregon. http://samiyabashir.com/

|| movement by keyon gaskin + filmed with Roland Dahwen Wu & Patua Films || Field Theories wends its way through quantum mechanics to chicken wings and Newports, love and a shoulder’s chill, melding blackbody theory (idealized perfect absorption, as opposed to the whitebody’s idealized reflection) with real live Black bodies. Albert Murray said, “the second law of thermodynamics ain’t nothing but the blues.” So what is the blue of how we treat each other, ourselves, of what this world does to us, of what we do to this shared world? Woven through experimental lyrics is a heroic crown of sonnets that wonders about love and intent, identity and hybridity, and how we embody these interstices and for what reasons and to what ends. These poems span lyric, narrative, dramatic, and multi-media experience, engaging their containers while pushing against their constraints. FIELD THEORIES, by Samiya Bashir Nightboat Books || 2.1.2017 Samiya Bashir’s previous books, including Gospel, Where the Apple Falls, and Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social & Political Black Literature & Art, exist. She makes poems of dirt, zeros & ones, text & light. She lives in Portland, Oregon. samiyabashir.com