'WITH SIMONE' PERFORMED BY TRANSITIVE STATE
FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 2025 | 6:30 - 7:30 PM
Tulsa Artist Fellowship - Flagship
112 N. Boston Ave, Tulsa, OK 74103
Join us for With Simone, a live performance of a historical score by Simone Forti, originally published in Womens Work (1975), a landmark collection of experimental compositions edited by Alison Knowles and Annea Lockwood.
In this activation, Transitive State, a Tulsa-based movement collective, responds to Forti’s instruction:
"At least five and as many as thousands of people walk in and out among each other passing as fast as possible, as close as possible while never touching, and making a buzzing sound."
Through improvised movement and buzzing vocalizations, the performers will animate the gallery in a dense field of alertness, rhythm, and relational proximity. The work explores the edge between chaos and coherence, asking how bodies move through shared space without collision, and how sound can tether us to one another across distance.
Featuring Alicia Chesser, Michelle Kenny, Sierra Pruitt, Maree ReMalia, Natalia Rojas, and Tyne Shillingford, With Simone takes place in conjunction with the exhibition Spatial Poems and continues the lineage of experimental, embodied practices that make space speak.
Transitive State is a project-based movement collective collaborating with landscapes, sounds, histories, and living beings in the layered space of Tvlse, Oklahoma. Some of its participants are new to the city and the collective, while others have worked here together for a decade, creating site-specific installations, performance works for the stage, and improvised encounters. With wide-ranging art practices and personal backgrounds, they are driven by the knowledge that bodies speak, that gestures remember, that the story of a place lives in the cells and the movement of those who live there.
VISITOR EXPERIENCE
Tulsa Artist Fellowship is committed to providing a welcoming and accessible experience for all. Our exhibitions and events are always free to attend, and they are documented and archived for broader public access.
Tulsa Artist Fellowship – Flagship (112 N Boston Ave, Tulsa, OK 74103) is open to the public Thursday–Saturday, 12–6 p.m. The gallery is wheelchair and stroller accessible, with flexible seating options and areas for distanced standing and wheelchair users. Family-sized, private restrooms with changing tables are available to support visitors with disabilities and caregivers.
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