#EJECTIONDAY2020

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EJECTION DAY 2020
Super Tuesday, November 3, 2020
12pm – 2pm EDT
Upper West Side, Manhattan

This event is free and open to the public.
Social distancing expected and implored.

ABSCONDED is a work that honors the life and legacy of Ona Maria Judge Staines through the creation of a living monument that moves through the streets of New York City. Ona Judge was born into slavery before the American Revolution. She was a seamstress and Martha Washington’s body servant and “pet.” During Washington’s second term, on May 21, 1796 at age 22, Judge quietly absconded from Philadelphia on a ship to New Hampshire as the Washington’s ate dinner. With the help of Free Black and abolitionist communities, she evaded capture for the rest of her life.

In the work, DRAGONFLY (Robin LaVerne Wilson / Miss Justice Jester) embodies Judge in moving-monumental form as she walks the streets, interacting with historical figures and markers, as well as unscripted elements encountered in the procession. The work is a meditation on the perpetual state of fugitivity as freedom for the marooned members of the African Diaspora, offering a voice from the past to unbuild the mythologies surrounding the United States’ celebrated tyrants.

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PERFORMANCE ROUTE

12:00pm	Seneca Village in Central Park
12:20pm	The Teddy Roosevelt Statue at the Museum of Natural History
12:30pm	Frederick Douglass Statue at the New York Historical Society
12:35pm	Columbus Avenue Promenade
12:50pm	Columbus Avenue & Broadway intersection
1:00pm	San Juan Hill — Lincoln Center
1:30pm	Columbus Circle & Trump International Hotel

PRESS

Art Blog:
Brooklyn Rail [#EjectionDay2020]

Art Blog:
Hyperallergic [#EjectionDay2020]

Art Blog:
Arcade Project Zine [#EjectionDay2020]

ARCHIVES

LIVESTREAM BY HEMITV

PRESS RELEASE
(English y Español)

EVENT PROGRAM (English)
Español || Português

FEEDBACK FORM

SONIC SCORE

Included are music selections featured in the sonic score for #EjectionDay2020.

SUPPORT

This performance was supported by the generous donations of time and labor from the collaborative team; an extended artist residency with Grace Exhibition Space; the promotion, documentation, livestream and archival support of Hemispheric Institute of Performance & Politics; and self-funding from the remains of the artist’s $1200 federal economic stimulus check.

EXTENDED THANKS