Drill Meditations | nolahanson

Bryant Park Shoeshine, 2016

42nd Street and 5th Avenue, Manhattan, New York City

For this participatory public performance, I bought a pair of all-white Air Force 1's and received a shoeshine at the stand on 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan. The work embeds itself in the practice of shoe-shining to explore it's material and metaphorical qualities, and it's relationship to aspects of identity, power, and labor.

NOLA HANSON

Drill Meditations, in collaboration with Nicky Smith

On Air Fest, Wythe Hotel
Brooklyn, New York

2018

For this iteration of the work, Drill Meditations, shown at On Air Fest in 2018, I remixed and re-created elements from, "We Dem N*ggas", a drill track by Lil Durk, produced by C-Sick. The piece served as the score for semi-choreographed performative drills. The movement component incorporated elements from various disciplines, including: qigong, boxing, and capoeria.