Dismantling Tactic 2 Hosted by NAKA (Navarrete x Kajiyama Dance Theater)
Join Kevin O’Connor as he performs in Dismantling: Tactic
2.
Dismantling: Tactic 2, a multimedia performance work where raw
exposure to the current racial environment begs a transformative
process of re-orientation. Dismantling: Tactic 2 is a full
evening performance in a gallery setting.
Featuring dancers-collaborators: Jose Abad, Amelia Uzategui
Bonilla, Cookie Harrist, Ronja Ver, Jonah Kagan, Debby Kajiyama,
Gizeh Muniz, randy reyes, Byb Chanel Bibene, Kevin O’Connor, poet
and preacher Marvin K. White, videographer Ainsley Tharp and
voice programming and processing by sound designer Adria Otte.
Collectively we develop new strategies to cope with and heal from
the constant racial tension we face. This residency also supports
a larger cultural project wherein the methods of inquiry used
during our time together are developed into a mobile art-based
curriculum that fuels a cathartic, game-changing conversation
around privilege, supremacy, economics and race.
Kevin studied mountain lions, coastal salmon populations and
land-use planning while acquiring a degree in Natural Resource
Conservation. During this time he developed a keen knowledge of
biological sciences and a deep interest in First Nations cultures
through the various nations that he worked with.
