HAUNTS BEGAN IN 2011 AS A CASUAL INTEREST IN MY FAMILY'S PAST. ONE OF MY ANCESTORS IS JAMES MARION SIMS, A 19TH CENTURY DOCTOR FROM SOUTH CAROLINA CREDITED AS BEING THE "FATHER OF GYNECOLOGY." SIMS BECAME A TOPIC OF DISCUSSION IN THE MID 90S AFTER IT WAS DISCOVERED HE HAD CONDUCTED HUNDREDS OF EXPERIMENTAL OPERATIONS WITHOUT ANESTHESIA ON ENSLAVED BLACK WOMEN AND POOR WHITE WOMEN TO ACHIEVE HIS MUCH LAUDED RESULTS, WHICH CATAPULTED HIM TO INTERNATIONAL FAME.

I TRAVELED TO THE TOWN WHERE HE GREW UP IN SOUTH CAROLINA AND RECORDED MY EXPERIENCES THERE.

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PERFORMANCE EXCERPT
"LOOKING SONG"

THE CLUB AT LA MAMA ETC
JUNE 2012

FEAT. NIV ACOSTA, TANISHA THOMPSON, SAM MILLER, AND KAREL VAN BEEKOM

COSTUMES BY MARIANA VALENCIA
PRODUCTION SUPPORT BY ELIZABETH ORR

HAUNTS

(2012)

(2013)

QUARTERED

HAUNTS

(2011-2013)