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Dreaming Undreamt Dreams with Lara Kramer
In her 75-minute performance Eating bones and Licking bread(2020), Lara Kramer returns to a recurring dream that has periodicallyvisited her since childhood: she is standing in a long line waitingto enter a huge dome-like glass house. Soldiers filter who can get in.The dream is a thicket of nostalgia, scarcity, and otherworldliness,and basking in those—at times…
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Turning our ears to our soft pulsating bellies
Ji zoongde’eyaang (2022) was a collaboration between Lara Kramer and her mother Ida Baptiste, artist, and retired Ojibwa language teacher (Member of Berens River First Nation, Manitoba, Treaty 5). Together they created a series of bright jingle-adorned trade blankets, one of which inspired the 2024 performance by the same name: Gorgeous Tongue. The title refers…