MAXINE FLASHER-DÜZGÜNEŞ PRESENTS:

STRIKETHROUGH 48

“strikethrough 48” is a multi-sensory, interactive installation that explores the layers of erasure poetry through animation, sound, and movement. Centered on a poem about life, loss, and mental health in a country marked by natural beauty and systemic neglect, the piece invites participants to physically alter hanging and wall texts using charcoal and natural materials. e. Featuring original sound by composer Michael Wall, projected animation by Jade Lien and Irene Lin, and live performances by dancers, the installation creates an evolving landscape of text, emotion, and embodied presence.

About the Artist: Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş is a Turkish-American poet, choreographer, and filmmaker based in Northern California engaging with the disciplines of choreography and visual art as tools for grasping poetic language. Her work critically investigates how poetics can serve as a thread in understanding where the body belongs in the vastly changing ecosphere. She has served as artist-in-residence at Djerassi Resident Artist Program (CA), Tofte Lake Center (MN), Surel's Place (ID), and Center at Eagle Hill (MA), and has been commissioned for Scenofest: World Stage Design 2022 (CAN), 92NY’s Future Dance Festival 2023 (NY), and FACT/SF Summer Dance Festival 2024 (CA). Her dance and poetry films have received official selection from festivals including kNOwBOX Dance Film Festival (TX, ROK & MEX), The Poetic Lens: Millennium Film Workshop (NY), Cadence Video Poetry Festival (WA), Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema (CO), and SzólóDuó International Dance Festival (HU). Her choreographic poetry platform, strikethrough-score.org, has been presented nationwide at Noori/TWIG Media Lab (UT), Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art (NY, and Mark Foehringer Dance Project (CA), and published with Poethesis Mag (UK), LOCULUS Collective (MA), and Pinky Thinker Press (NJ). She currently covers the global dance scene for Dance Art Journal, teaches with California Poets in the Schools and Alonzo King LINES Ballet, and directs Marin County's first Youth Poet Laureate Program. Maxine received a B.F.A. in Dance (magna cum laude) from NYU Tisch and an M.A. in Dance Philosophy (with distinction) from University of Roehampton London as a US-UK Fulbright Finalist.