WEAVERS OF THE DAISY CHAIN GANG CHORUS: Ties that Bond

Peter Cramer and Jack Waters invite the artists, activists, and advocates of Visual AIDS to participate in the activation of the NYC AIDS Memorial on June 10, 2023. We’re creating an all day event titled…WEAVERS OF THE DAISY CHAIN GANG CHORUS: Ties That Bond, a durational performance/installation in collaboration with NYOBS - our “queer- skinned kitchen band”. Beginning at noon, our ensemble will weave a tapestry of ribbons, sound, movement, music, and text throughout the Memorial site, evoking the tradition of springtime maypole celebrations. https://www.nycaidsmemorial.org/weavers

We invite you to bring a photograph, drawing, poem, lightweight momento that acknowledges and commemorates those lost to, or living with, AIDS /HIV. Materials must be no larger than legal paper and easily attached to our “web” of red binding materials including ribbons, cloth, rope, etc. All submissions will be gifted to the NYC AIDS Memorial for their archives. If unable to attend on the day of event, please send your submission to Allied Productions PO BOX 20260 NY NY 10009. For more info please contact us at peterandjack@alliedproductions.org

Program Schedule *

12pm: Cleansing the Monument - Let Our Weaving Begin...Join in for the binding of the monument. A participatory group action: Durational until the weave is wound

1pm: Chalk It Up - Creating body outlines. Art materials supplied

2pm: "Decolonial Poetry: Us Despite Them" w/readers: Eura Chun, M.S. Red Cherries, Ra Ruiz Leon

3pm: Granite writing DIY Stone Rubbing Poetry (Participatory group action) rubbings of the Walt Whitman poem inscribed in the concrete on the monument ground

4pm: Tea Time! Processional, Pot & Pizza

5pm: Out shout, Let it out! An open forum to express yourself

6pm: NYOBS, NYC’s Terminally queer Skinned Noise-Goth band Mike Cacciatore, John Swartz, Peter Cramer, Jack Waters

7pm: Dance OUT / Chill w/DJ Econ

8pm: Closing Ceremony

*All programming subject to variables of spontaneity

TIES THAT BOND is a commission by the NYC AIDS Memorial and supported by a Visual AIDS Materials Grant.

About the Artists

Peter Cramer’s practice often addresses socio-political engagement and issues of sexual/gender identity, AIDS activism, and archival histories. Peter’s work has been presented at the MoMA, Whitney, New Museum, Danspace Project, Anthology Film Archives, Visual AIDS, and MIX NYC. His films have been preserved by the National Film Preservation Fund and are available through the Film-makers’ Co-operative and Allied Productions.

Jack Waters is a choreographer of social processes, engaging with performance, photography, visual art, and film/video. His films have been exhibited at the Whitney Museum and The National Gallery of Art. Choreographic credits include Personifications staged for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center Repertory Workshop, and his works created as a founding member of POOL, the choreographer’s collective that was the resident dance company of the legendary Pyramid Club in New York City of the 1980s. Waters performed the title role of Jason Holliday in the acclaimed 2015 indie film “Jason and Shirley” for which he is a co-writer.