Fellowship Recipient
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
2012
The Guggenheim Fellowship will support the creation of a series of performance videos entitled Mogbo mo branch, a Yoruba phrase meaning I heard and I branched myself into the party. Mogbo mo branch will build upon my previous performance investigations which create connections between Africa and the Americas via the black female body/bodies. While Mogbo mo branch in its basic meaning describes a party crasher, it also refers to the party itself and is a phrase which celebrates the bold ingenuity of Lagosians. I will develop performative language and aesthetics to speak about how women in particular occupy space and make claims to their own bodies in this postcolonial cityscape. Mogbo mo branch will be created in collaboration with local performers using the philosophies of Afrofuturism, which foreground African cosmologies, political realities, and historical experiences while simultaneously writing black people into fresh and expansive futures.
2012
The Guggenheim Fellowship will support the creation of a series of performance videos entitled Mogbo mo branch, a Yoruba phrase meaning I heard and I branched myself into the party. Mogbo mo branch will build upon my previous performance investigations which create connections between Africa and the Americas via the black female body/bodies. While Mogbo mo branch in its basic meaning describes a party crasher, it also refers to the party itself and is a phrase which celebrates the bold ingenuity of Lagosians. I will develop performative language and aesthetics to speak about how women in particular occupy space and make claims to their own bodies in this postcolonial cityscape. Mogbo mo branch will be created in collaboration with local performers using the philosophies of Afrofuturism, which foreground African cosmologies, political realities, and historical experiences while simultaneously writing black people into fresh and expansive futures.
Panelist
CULTUREBOT CONVERSATION: Performance and Context, The Black Box and The White Cube
with Andy Horwitz, Mike Smith, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Phil Soltanoff, Paul Bonin-Rodriguez and Hilary Graves
Friday, May 4, 2012
12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Fusebox Festival Hub, 1100 E 5th St, Austin, TX 78702, USA
In today’s cultural landscape, contemporary artists are continuously blurring the lines between theater, dance, installation, performance art, visual art and live art. The work’s context comes from who curates it, where it happens, who writes about it and who is its intended audience. Performance is perceived and evaluated differently when presented in a gallery or museum as opposed to a theater. Why is that? What does it mean? And how can we move beyond the Black Box vs. the White Cube and devise new frameworks for genre-defying performance? Culturebot and Fusebox bring together artists, curators and critics to discuss this hot-button topic.
with Andy Horwitz, Mike Smith, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Phil Soltanoff, Paul Bonin-Rodriguez and Hilary Graves
Friday, May 4, 2012
12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Fusebox Festival Hub, 1100 E 5th St, Austin, TX 78702, USA
In today’s cultural landscape, contemporary artists are continuously blurring the lines between theater, dance, installation, performance art, visual art and live art. The work’s context comes from who curates it, where it happens, who writes about it and who is its intended audience. Performance is perceived and evaluated differently when presented in a gallery or museum as opposed to a theater. Why is that? What does it mean? And how can we move beyond the Black Box vs. the White Cube and devise new frameworks for genre-defying performance? Culturebot and Fusebox bring together artists, curators and critics to discuss this hot-button topic.
Gallery Talk in conjunction with the exhibition Glenn Ligon: America
Sundays with the Modern
Sunday, May 6, 2012
1:00pm
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
3200 Darnell Street Fort Worth, TX 76107
Sunday, May 6, 2012
1:00pm
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
3200 Darnell Street Fort Worth, TX 76107
Performance
A tortoise walks majestically on window ledges, a new performance inspired by my father's dream journals
new work: performances by Florinda Bryant, Sade Jones, Natasha Mevs-Korff, and Wura-Natasha Ogunji
Thursday, June 14, 2012
7-9pm
Women and Their Work
1710 Lavaca Street
Austin, TX 78701
new work: performances by Florinda Bryant, Sade Jones, Natasha Mevs-Korff, and Wura-Natasha Ogunji
Thursday, June 14, 2012
7-9pm
Women and Their Work
1710 Lavaca Street
Austin, TX 78701
