Chicago Performs | cat mahari, blk ark: the impossible manifestation

cat mahari’s blk ark: the impossible manifestation is an interactive performance and installation, with live, semi-improvisational sound, hip-hop, and film. By exploring improvisational and Black cultural strategies of play, learned from joanin’ and the soul clap, mahari presents modes of survival and liberation, revealing questions about what it will take to find freedom and map the road ahead for our collective futures.

blk ark: the impossible manifestation is a multi-modal tryptich that includes performance, an interactive installation, and a live-scored film. At the MCA, the performance is presented as an excerpt from the larger project.