“I realized — after having been kind of alone the days after the last two elections — that I wanted to build a space for a community and for people to process the election,” Hunter said. “Through the lens of this book that talks about community and bringing together community, and then surviving what, in the book, seems like a great change that feels like the end of the world, and seeing the hopeful lens of understanding change as a force and that we can shape change and how we move past it.” –Quinn Alexandria Hunter, performance artist and Stamps Assistant Professor in a Michigan Daily article about her Parable of the Now project.
Parable of the Now was an afternoon of performances and readings intended to hold space in the wake of the 2024 general election. It was centered around the November 6th, 2024 entry in Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower that coincides with the day after a general election in the book and the day after our own 2024 general election. Performances took place every hour, punctuated by reading of chapters from the book leading up to the final reading of the November 6th chapter.
Read the entire article at https://myumi.ch/nyWE2.
Parable of the Now was presented by the Institute for the Humanities in collaboration with Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, the U-M Arts Initiative, and Stamps School of Art and Design.
