FAITH MATERIAL: ACTIVISM performed at CounterPulse, is a body- and object-bed performance about the urgent importance of believing in things that cannot be proven. The work utilizes physical practices of mediumship, ontological re-animation of objects, and full expression of faith to present a number of intimate domestic scenes of queer solitude-turned-futurism. Jesse Hewit's work is clearly influenced by Haraway’s “new materialism” politics, by the queer re-imagining/survival project of Pee Wee’s Playhouse, and by the creative faith-practices of artist/priest Amara Tabor-Smith, poet/theologian Marvin K. White, and artist/healer Sara Shelton Mann.
Concept, Choreography, Text, Scenography, Performance: Jesse Hewit
Choreography, Text, Performance: Keyon Gaskin
Choreography, Text: Abby Crain
Light: Zoe Klein
Sound: Robbie Beahrs
Cameras: Jacob Marks, Rachel Marks