BODY AS ALTAR: A HARVEST is a process-driven gathering drawing from throughlines of Jay’s artistic commitments, including collective nourishment, shared cultural grief, and memory. This workshop will draw from two of Jay’s recent and ongoing works, tapping the reflections on oral traditions in TALAGA and themes of ritualistic transformation in WAKE. Please join this workshop for a meal, dialogue, dance meditation, and an intentional space for embodied liberation. Attendees are encouraged to contribute flowers to this workshop’s communal altar.

ABOUT JAY CARLON

Jay Carlon is a Los Angeles based artist working across performance, film, installation, and community gathering. His practice explores migration, postcolonial identity, queer futurity, grief, ritual, and collective healing. Rooted in interdisciplinary collaboration and site-responsive performance, Carlon blurs the boundaries between dance, visual art, experimental sound, and social practice.

His work has been presented nationally and internationally by organizations including The Lincoln Center, Bangkok 1899, REDCAT, The Broad, and Center for Art and Performance UCLA. Carlon is a recipient of the Ellis-Beurregard Choreographer Award, the New England Foundation for the Arts National Dance Project Grant, California Arts Council Established Artist Fellowship, and named Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch.” Alongside his choreographic work, he has contributed to community-based organizing and artistic platforms centering Filipino, queer, diasporic, culinary, and experimental performance practices. Through intimate and large-scale works alike, Carlon creates spaces that invite audiences into shared experiences of embodiment, memory, transformation, and care.