Cynthia Oliver | Turn. Turning. TURNT

April 29, 2026 — May 1st, 2026

Cynthia Oliver, based in Illinois and the project is supported by the National Performance Network, brings Turn. Turning. TURNT — a triptych of movement experiments spanning before, during, and after the global pandemic. Drawing on double dutch as life skill training, AfroFuturist aspiration, and the hard-won wisdom of collective fallow, Oliver's work asks what we have summoned through difficulty — and what we owe ourselves as we return to moving, remembering, and recovering for a world anew. Cynthia has deep ties to this region, and her arrival here is a return as much as a debut.

https://www.cynthiaoliver.com/

Red Eye presents KIN Artists Partnerships, a four part series of artists that pass through Red Eye with one animating principle: relationship. Enduring relationship.

Red Eye is part of a national network of artistic inquiry — and KIN is a significant step toward showing up to that conversation with intention and honesty. KIN is a response to the shifting needs of commissioned work, an experiment in interrupting the transactional way we value artistry.

Every artist that is a part of KIN brings something different — different resources, histories, forms of capital. Every artist has a relationship to real people, to Red Eye, Minneapolis, to the Twin Cities, to people and practices and communities that make this ecosystem what it is.

If KIN is about relationships– relationships to people and places - KIN is also about relationships to commissioning models, and artistic inquiry as transcontinental experimentation. KIN artists are sifting through the tethered immediacy of today. KIN is about queer tragedy, reflection, bending autobiography, and grief. KIN is about what is summoned through difficulty, what we owe ourselves, and what happens after collective life changing conditions. KIN is the most hopeful survival strategy we can muster: make it up again and again. Believe in body, dancing and each other.

Photo by olivia moon