Sunblast (2021)
The Sun Seekers
Amy Khoshbin and Jennifer Khoshbin
June 18 at 3pm
Exhibition Open 12-6pm
Upper Gallery, The Arts Center at Governors Island, 110 Andes Road, Governors Island
The Sun Seekers is an hour-long participatory performance led by ITP's Aumna, Amy Khoshbin, for River to River Festival set in Amy and Jennifer Khoshbin’s– a sister duo– immersive installation at The Arts Center at Governors Island. The performance promotes healing through disconnecting with technology and reconnecting with ourselves, each other, and the natural world. The Sun Seekers is a sci-fi narrative about an alternate world that maintains a direct correlation to our experience of the isolation and anxiety of indoor on-screen life (the Wreck-tangle).
Each performance begins in the Sun Seekers Sunport– the indoor immersive installation of analog sensory sculptures that doubles as an initiation space to the Sun Seekers world. Participants collectively engage with immersive sensory sculptures such as vaginal scent pods and weighted blanket capes as prompts to awaken senses found outside the Wreck-tangle: smell, touch, sound, balance. Performers lead participants through a series of polysensory somatic prompts outdoors, like durational absurdist movement, visualizations, and consuming healing botanicals together.