Posted on March 8, 2014
ARC Magazine features one of the first performances for En Mas’: Marlon Griffith.
“Positions + Power is an intervention in the space of carnival that uses the body as a primary medium, stripping mas’ of its decorative elements while maintaining a balance between the material and the immaterial. Through the positions of and interactions between the masqueraders and an ominous mobile surveillance tower, reminiscent of police booths omnipresent at carnival time, Positions + Power points to power relations in public space between the state and civil society. Positions + Power also makes visible processes of negotiation of class and ethnicity through body make-up inspired by the local fashion of chest powdering.” – ARC Magazine