Performance artist and self-described “creative practitioner” Baraka de Soleil addresses the distinct and intersecting legacies of race and disability, often by using dance as a tool to explore the aesthetics of each. Tomorrow (Friday, February 19) at Gallery 400 he will conduct “The ‘Good’ Body (Chicago Edition),” a lecture presented by Bodies of Work, an arts and culture organization within the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Department of Disability and Human Development, as part of its “Exposure” series.
Assistive services such as language interpreters, real-time captioning, personal assistants, and audio descriptions will be provided to disabled audience members. Soleil is interested in how these accompaniments will aid those who are disabled, but he’s also curious about how these additions might influence the translation of his performance for audience members who do not identify as such.
