B. R. A. C. E., MASS MoCA documents an obstacle course/performance/installation created by artist Patricia Brace during her residency at MASS MoCA in 2018. The video features Brace alongside artists Vered Snear, Danielle Andress, Chris Williford, Elisabeth Smolarz, and Hyo Jin Yoo, performing within an immersive, hard-edge, abstract environment dominated by red, green, and blue. Wearing corresponding red, green, and blue B. R. A. C. E. costumes, the performers activate the space through collaborative and improvisational feminist sketches.

Bifurcated Radical Anarchist Cultural Enterprise (B. R. A. C. E.) is a performance group of 1-5 women and LGBTQIA performers, founded by Patricia Brace in 2016. Since its inception, B. R. A. C. E. has performed at Rutgers University, IF Museum Academy, Tête Berlin, and MASS MoCA. Utilizing hybridized forms of athletics, dance, product design, and both analogue and digital technologies, B. R. A. C. E. seeks to expose and challenge the injustices faced by women and LGBTQIA individuals as a trickle-down effect of governmental policies. When laws infringe on personal liberties and expressions of identity, B. R. A. C. E. asks, “What is truth in a political system that lies, and how do we occupy that space?”

Photo credit: Patricia Brace and Vered Snear