VITRUVIAN
Hailed by the Brooklyn Rail as “a triumph of intention and reinvention, centering disability and celebrating Herman’s rebirth as his own divine form,” VITRUVIAN shares an allegorical tale of the life cycle of the Vitruvian man as he traverses multiple hemispheres, now in the embodiment of a Disabled Black man. Based on Da Vinci’s famous sketch, the piece explores the ways natural phenomena and history enter and live in the body.
Hailed by the Brooklyn Rail as “a triumph of intention and reinvention, centering disability and celebrating Herman’s rebirth as his own divine form,” VITRUVIAN shares an allegorical tale of the life cycle of the Vitruvian man as he traverses multiple hemispheres, now in the embodiment of a Disabled Black man. Based on Da Vinci’s famous sketch, the piece explores the ways natural phenomena and history enter and live in the body. The following is an edited transcript of a live conversation between Jerron Herman and Pia Hargrove following the screening of the Access Film of VITRUVIAN at MICA on Tuesday, February 28, 2023 and photographs from the dress rehearsal and live performance at the Baltimore Museum of Art on Wednesday and Thursday, March 1–2, 2023.
“My actual body is a site for activity, for history, and then for the future, for futurity. To use that in my art feels very comfortable and real.”
Support for VITRUVIAN in Baltimore comes from the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute; Baltimore Museum of Art; the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum; the Center for Africana Studies; the Departments of Classics, History of Art, and Philosophy; Gender and Sexuality Resources; the Center for Diversity and Inclusion; Maryland Institute College of Art; the Program in Women, Gender, and Sexuality; the Tabb Center; and the Krieger School Dean’s Office.