Empathy considers touch, connection and human emotion in our concepts of the future
Moving through this festival, we’ve seen artists question our structures and now we segue into another theme of work: empathy. In this historical moment it feels so urgent to engage in empathy. We are marching, we are connecting, we are crying, we are hurting, we are celebrating progress, we are experiencing, we are learning, we are calling out, we are calling on, we are planting, we are burning, we are rebuilding, we are exhausted and there is more work to be done and it is due now. The work from these collection of artists use empathy as an impetus to drive collaborations, as a practice of reflection, and as a way to reconsider how we interact with our environments. We invite you to sit with these works, visit, re-visit, feel, fuel and repeat. It is my hope that with this practice of empathy we can navigate the future as a collective.
—Bree Breeden
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We recognize that the current economic realities are unprecedented, and we want everyone to be able to access the important and timely work in P/FPF. All contents of the festival are free, but if you have the means to do so, we encourage you to make a donation to support the artists. Many artists have chosen to have their shares redirected to racial justice organizations.
Bree Breeden:
rewrite: reflecting on why
Madison McGain:
re/fraction: study of ephemerality
(both works made in conversation between the artists who were strangers)
Rae Yuping Hsu
y e l l o w s o u p
Laurel Snyder
Sometimes I feel
Janessa Clark
communion
Madalyn Rupprecht
The Understory
Suku Dance Lab
2020