Malakai Greiner is an artist and writer living and working in Minneapolis.
“You don’t need a roadmap for Resonance: you will want to get lost.” In anticipation of the May 18 Resonance sound art marathon, a guide to the ten multidisciplinary artists and the ideas they’ll be exploring at the intersections of sound, sight, and touch.
In her poetry, Claudia Rankine creates “internal, abstract landscapes of feeling,” says Will Rawls, who has collaborated with the Citizen author on a new performance work. “It is these landscapes of intensity, stillness, absurdity, and wonder that inform the mood and structure of What Remains.” In anticipation of the Walker’s performances of What Remains, writer and artist Malakai Greiner, in conversation with Rawls, reflects on legibility, blackness, Edouard Glissant’s right to opacity, and the void.
“JACK & tells a story of dreaming deferred by the American criminal justice system, and of a search for the ingredients needed to get those dreams back.” Artist and writer Malakai Greiner offers their recipe for the Out There 2019 performance by Kaneza Schaal in collaboration with Cornell Alston and Christopher Myers.
“Public Love shows the climactic collisions of together, the soothing tenderness of together, the constructive power of together; togetherness that is energetic, loving, tactile, resonant, and so, so broad.” Malakei Greiner reflects on the new collaborative work by Morgan Thorson and Alan Sparhawk.
