and you did not even know enough to be sorry

North Carolina Museum of Art West Building
October 9, 2022- December 2023
2110 Blue Ridge Rd. Raleigh, NC
Made with the help of: Tatum Eyre, Todd Bowser, Susanne Baker, Twenty 2 Wallpaper, Kaitlin Botts, and Kris Julio

The Aftermath: Performance

​Video collage of our performance at the North Carolina Museum of Art’s opening weekend in October 2022. The performance lasted an hour and a half and the documentation, though greatly condensed, spans the entirety of the event.

Performers: Blakeney Bullock and Miles Yeung-Tieu | original soundtrack by Todd Bowser | garments and fabric by Red Canary | masks by Elizabeth Alexander | Video by SmARTlab

On October 9, 2022 "viewers experienced a moving piece of art as dancers called upon themes reflected in Elizabeth Alexander’s newly installed work 'and you did not even know enough to be sorry.' Blakeney Bullock and Miles Yeung-Tieu moved within Alexander’s site-specific installation to an original soundtrack by Todd Bowser for 90 minutes as that corner of West Building filled with ambient sound and movement.

The performers embodied the great oscillation between immobility and mania that happens inside catastrophic weather events—tightness-holding despair on one side; beauty, relief, release, and mutual aid on the other. The body, like the storm, holds unknowable multitudes and can become a comfortable order or a tragic spectacle. What do these extremes do as characters in a duet? What relationships are created, projected, and witnessed?”