boiling rain
boiling rain
devynn emory
devynn emory
boiling rain finds the intersection of emory’s formalist training, labor as a Registered Nurse through COVID, and healing practices to reimagine end of life care with medical mannequins as a practice ground for a visioning and reclaiming of honorable deathways and transitions. this work is an invitation to caring for the ill and dying within community, with the last work of this trilogy shifting the gaze from the dying patient to include the caregivers as a people declining. by placing the hospital body ritual tenders in performance, i indroduce the undiscussed durational labor of our frontline workers in collaboration with our dying out of privacy and isolation, welcoming collective attunment. as we globally navigate multiple pandemics, how can we insist on celebrating the physical body in aliveness, while we endure constant decline, while insisting on togetherness. the soundscapes are live and ethereal, the dancers effortful and rigorous, the mannequin, our family in decline, while sculptural ancestors who have passed in previous works bare witness and welcome forward, outlining our interconnectedness. this triology has mapped emory’s journey becoming an inpatient Registered Nurse, through multiple pandemics and situates us in contemporary decline.
Dance, Multimedia Performance, Performing Arts
2026
About devynn emory
Brooklyn, NY
devynn emory is a choreographer, dance artist, bodyworker, seer, Registered Nurse, and Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. they hold experience in acute care, hospice, COVID19, and currently work inpatient in Integrative Medicine and Gender Affirming Surgery, and serve as an educator for hospital staff in end of life care, secondary trauma and , cultural sensitivty. emory’s performance company devynnemory/beastproductions finds performance at the intersection of these modalities, sourcing from multiple in-between states of being both in their body as a transgender person with indigenous ancestry, hold ing space for liminal bodies bridging multiple planes of existence. emory has been creating and performing a trilogy since 2018 paralelling their journey in becoming and working as a Registered Nurse, centering medical mannequins. part one deadbird + can anybody help me hold this body (2021) and part two Cindy Sessions and Grandmother Cindy (2022) contains conversations, films, live performance, a public grief altar, storytelling and an interactive archive. the series has been awarded by the United States Artists, Foundation for Contemporary Arts and Art Matters. these works center the uncanny medical mannequins and grandmother wisdom in each work circling around a mannequin passes away, becoming an ancestor of the next work. this series invites the practice of grief with audience during the time period between 2018-2026. part three, boiling-rain is currently in research, and will introduce advanced medical mannequin Jeanie, and the laborers and caregivers that surround her.
devynn emory is a choreographer, dance artist, bodyworker, seer, Registered Nurse, and Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. they hold experience in acute care, hospice, COVID19, and currently work inpatient in Integrative Medicine and Gender Affirming Surgery, and serve as an educator for hospital staff in end of life care, secondary trauma and , cultural sensitivty. emory’s performance company devynnemory/beastproductions finds performance at the intersection of these modalities, sourcing from multiple in-between states of being both in their body as a transgender person with indigenous ancestry, hold ing space for liminal bodies bridging multiple planes of existence. emory has been creating and performing a trilogy since 2018 paralelling their journey in becoming and working as a Registered Nurse, centering medical mannequins. part one deadbird + can anybody help me hold this body (2021) and part two Cindy Sessions and Grandmother Cindy (2022) contains conversations, films, live performance, a public grief altar, storytelling and an interactive archive. the series has been awarded by the United States Artists, Foundation for Contemporary Arts and Art Matters. these works center the uncanny medical mannequins and grandmother wisdom in each work circling around a mannequin passes away, becoming an ancestor of the next work. this series invites the practice of grief with audience during the time period between 2018-2026. part three, boiling-rain is currently in research, and will introduce advanced medical mannequin Jeanie, and the laborers and caregivers that surround her.