FARMINGTON The Emery Community Arts Center on the University of Maine at Farmington campus proudly presents the North American debut of “the waves and the mantram, part 1.” The exhibit features a multi-channel film installation by Markeith Chavous, media artist, poet and UMF graduate of the class of 2011. The exhibition will be on
“PULSE, PULSE, PULSE, PULSE, hold, and pause,” a voice-over evenly calls out as monochrome footage rapidly intercuts between a black woman alone on a stretch of grass arms out and angular, the top of her body pulling toward the ground and her legs partially bent and stick-figure notations of her dance. Minutes later, a clip of women swirling the voluminous white clothes tied at their waists unfolds, instead, at a mesmerizing and unsettling molasses pace. This archival footage is punctuated with intertitles: “What happened when you looked down the lens? Or did they tell you not to?” “I want to
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