Gender identity as a verb – does it describe an action, state or occurrence that is shaped or related to the space and objects surrounding me? Am I morphed by outside entities, barriers and people, and do I morph the objects and spaces that I exist in? Without these nouns and physical entities, can my body be free to exist without a need for definition? And if I am physically not there, is the room different?
Emma Arrick is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Philadelphia. She graduated from the University of the Arts with a BFA in theatre with focuses in movement pedagogy and interdisciplinary collaboration. She is a founding artistic director of Cursed, and a company member with Zimbo Films, and BRAT Productions where she recently ended an artist’s residency directing and curating “Plant Me Here”, an interdisciplinary experienced based on the poetry of Jason Rosenberg. Upcoming: directing “Me First: An Autobiographical Comedy About Dying” and collaborating with “She is a Problem”, both for the Philadelphia Fringe, and “GO HOME”, the next phase of “Plant Me Here” presented by Cursed.
Chloe Coover is an artist, musician, performer, event organizer and writer based in Philadelphia. A graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and UPenn, Chloe has exhibited at AUX Space, Crane Arts, Pterydactyl Gallery, Fjord and New Boone in Philadelphia, the Lodge Gallery in NYC, Front/Space in Kansas City and Non-Fiction Gallery in Savannah GA, among others. Chloe is a member and co-founder of BAIT Collective, a Philadelphia-based group of artists and thinkers working to curate and organize discussions, lectures, performances and more. In 2014, Chloe put out an album, Songs From a Bedroom In An Alternate Universe and performed at multiple venues in Philadelphia, New York, Connecticut and further afield. Chloe loves Xena: Warrior Princess, wearing brown lipstick, and any/all non-poisonous insects.
Kate Speidel
Born into a loving family, she could find ways not to love them.
Sent into a group of friends, she could find a way to make them cruel.
Given educational resources, she could find reasons to hide from them.
Offered an opportunity to explain herself, she could find a way to make fun of it.
