Gabrielle Civil will share musings on Black time and Black dreams, and read from her recent work in a visit to LAS faculty Jen Hofer's Black Poetry Matters course.
Gabrielle Civil is a Black feminist performance artist, poet, and writer, originally from Detroit MI. She has premiered 50 performance works around the world, most recently with Wild Beauty at the Velocity Dance Center in Seattle (2020), and in the Salt Lake City Performance Art Festival (2021). Her performance memoirs include Swallow the Fish (2017), Experiments in Joy (2019), (ghost gestures) (2021), and the déjà vu (2022). Her performance stills and videos have been exhibited in art spaces in California, Ohio, Minnesota, Mexico, and Brazil. A 2019 Rema Hort Mann LA Emerging Artist, she teaches at the California Institute of the Arts. The aim of her work is to open up space.
Zoom link to attend the lecture: https://otis.zoom.us/j/95941530579
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Images by Ally Almore.
