Legs is Legs (ft. Shara Lunon)

In "Legs is Legs," Asia Stewart uses approximately 100 nylon stockings to bind her body to an ironing board. Her repeated gestures physicalize the constraints that dictate how women and femmes can and should present their bodies to others.


During this performance, musician and artist Shara Lunon transforms Stewart's body into a score. Throughout the hour-long piece, Lunon responds to Stewart's physical movements and creates improvised sounds.


"Legs is Legs" was performed live on December 15, 2021 at the closing reception of the NARS Foundation's "Utterances" exhibition.


Concept by Asia Stewart
Performed by Asia Stewart & Shara Lunon
Sound by Shara Lunon

Videography by Jasiel Lampkin

Edited by Asia Stewart

Arts for Art 

Darius Jones, Cooper-Moore, Gerald Cleaver, and Shara Lunon in Performance & Discussion.   

Arts for Art's On_Line Salon series features live streaming FreeJazz performances and conversations every Tuesday and Thursday.
Darius Jones - alto sax
Cooper-Moore - piano
Gerald Cleaver - drums
Shara Lunon - poetry

Darius Jones has created a recognizable voice as a saxophonist and composer by embracing individuality and innovation in the tradition of African-American music. 

With NYC as his base, Jones has toured around the United States, Canada and Europe. Jones was one of Jazz Times' Debut Artists of the Year for 2009 and was featured in the Wall Street Journal in 2011, and in 'DownBeat' in 2012. Jones' 2012 release, Book of Mæ'bul (Another Kind of Sunrise) was listed among NPR's Best Top 10 Jazz Albums of that year. Critics have called him "robustly creative" (Nate Chinen, NYT) and "one of NYC's most incisive and passionate saxists" (Time Out).

In May 2020, Arts for Art introduced the On_Line Salon series to provide performance opportunities for our artists who lost all in-person gigs due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, we've presented over 45 performances featuring 100 artists. Performances stream every Tuesday and Thursday.