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Performative Installation

Safety Moves (2024) is an interactive installation and performance that utilized public safety equipment to underline the precarity of our present moment. Created from crowd control barriers, the maze was reconfigured by performers throughout the event. Viewers were encouraged to walk through the maze and interact with traffic directions. Using play as a strategy to challenge our traditional encoded behaviors of moving in public spaces, the choreography reflected and disrupted these expectations with movement inspired by navigation and safety personnel. Safety Moves invited viewers to consider safety as an embodied social and cultural experience.

Performers/Collaborators: Alex Epps, Anna Galluzzi, Gibson Regester, Enedelia Sauceda, Anissa Smith, and Kristina Smith; Safety Sounds: Margaret Libersat

Bio

Julie Libersat is an intermedia artist, designer, and educator whose interactive installations compel viewers to consider how public space is socially and culturally produced. Naomi Kliewer is a performance artist and educator who creates performances that trouble traditional concepts of performer/viewer. Libersat and Kliewer use play to create participatory spaces where roles are fluid and outcomes open-ended.