Departure Study of Mother/land Fabric

The Exponential Festival presents Departure Study of Mother/land Fabric

Filmed at The Brick Theater by ZANNI Productions

Was forgetting a calculated effort? How can you hold onto what you cannot recall? Heath’s solo performance seams pieces of movement, text, and video; exposing her deepest fantasies of an unknown mother. Suspended bojagi pieces create a fantasied womb space where fragments of partial truths and unverified facts circulate, slowly imprinting a possibility of embodied “folklore” memory.

Created and Performed by Annie Heath

In collaboration with

Shannon Brooks (Filmmaker)

Leonie Castelino (Visual Designer)

and Anna Wotring (Producer)

Departure Study of Mother/land Fabric is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council. 2020-2022 work of Annie Heath is made possible with the generous assistance of New York Live Arts; Asian American Arts Alliance; University of Massachusetts Amherst; and LEIMAY Foundation.

Photography by Shunyao Zhang

The Exponential Festival:

~ A pleasure, a mess, a thrill, and a dream. ~​

Exponential is a 501c3 January performance festival for NYC-based emerging artists working in experimental performance. The participants in this multi-artist, multi-venue festival are committed to ecstatic creativity in the face of commercialism. Exponential is driven by inclusiveness and a diversity of artists, forms, and ideas coupled with utopian resource-sharing, mentoring and the championing of risky, rigorous work in eclectic fields.