Movement-Scapes: A Performance by Kiera Bono & Michelle Mantione

In collaboration with Sensory-Scapes, a Multisensory Textile Exhibit by Sugandha Gupta

Thursday, September 18th, 5:00-7:00pm

Movement-Scapes is a dance performance that will be accompanied by an audio description, and followed by a Q&A with the performers. 

Kiera Bono is a performance artist who will perform while wearing textile creations by Sugandha Gupta. Afterward, the two artists will host a conversation about the synergy between their practices, exploring the intersectionality of sensory design across multiple fields and applications.

Michelle Mantione is a disabled performance artist and audio describer who will also perform while wearing textile creations by Sugandha, who writes: “We align in our values and offer care and access to each other. It is a synergetic relationship, and her performing in my pieces demonstrates the value in interdependence and care networks as professed by the disability justice movement.”

Sensory-Scapes is a multisensory textile exhibit that engages audiences through their senses and is accessible by design. The exhibit features Sugandha Gupta’s sensory textile art pieces, wearables and objects that invite audiences to participate through touch, sound, smell and sight. It highlights inclusion through multimodal engagement.

Sugandha Gupta is the Assistant Professor of Fashion Design and Materiality at Parsons School of Design. Born with albinism, and visually impaired, Gupta creates Sensory-Textiles which are a collection of textiles and wearables that encourage audiences to engage through their sense of touch sound, smell, and sight. Gupta’s research interests are at intersections of multi-sensory modes of art, design and embodied justice.

Image Description: Overlaid on a close up image of a woolen textile art, made of layered natural fibers in shades of ivory, beige, brown, taupe, and gray, is the following text: “MOVEMENT-SCAPES. A Performance by Kiera Bono & Michelle Mantione. In collaboration with SENSORY-SCAPES, a Multisensory Textile Exhibit by Sugandha Gupta. Thursday, September 18, 5:00-7:00 pm. POSITIVE EXPOSURE, 4th Floor, 83MaidenLn, New York, NY 10038.”