Event Space: Living Ancestor
Year: 2013
Location: Telfair Academy, Savannah, GA
Duration: 45-minute performance.
“Event Space,” was featured at the Telfair Museum’s Academy. After researching the Academy’s rich history as a mansion, I wanted to find a connection with the space. While taking photographs of the museum and period furniture to prepare for my performance, I noticed the absence of images of black women. My response to this was to mimic the poses of the Caucasian women in the paintings of the period rooms for my performance. The audience documented the performance in sketchbooks as I posed.
Event Space: Living Ancestor
Year: 2013
Location: Telfair Academy, Savannah, GA
Duration: 45-minute performance.
The garment created for the performance is based on the wedding dress worn Scarlet O'Hara from the screenplay adaptation of Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind. Colorfully printed fabrics were used rather than white to emphasize the visually celebratory nature of wedding dresses within many African cultures.
“Event Space,” was featured at the Telfair Museum’s Academy. After researching the Academy’s rich history as a mansion, I wanted to find a connection with the space. While taking photographs of the museum and period furniture to prepare for my performance, I noticed the absence of images of black women. My response to this was to mimic the poses of the Caucasian women in the paintings of the period rooms for my performance. The audience documented the performance in sketchbooks as I posed.
Event Space: Living Ancestor
Year: 2013
Location: Telfair Academy, Savannah, GA
Duration: 45-minute performance.
Event Space: Living Ancestor
Year: 2013
Location: Telfair Academy, Savannah, GA
Duration: 45-minute performance.
Event Space: Living Ancestor
Year: 2013
Location: Telfair Academy, Savannah, GA
Duration: 45-minute performance.
Event Space: Living Ancestor
Year: 2013
Location: Telfair Academy, Savannah, GA
Duration: 45-minute performance.
Event Space: Living Ancestor
Year: 2013
Location: Telfair Academy, Savannah, GA
Duration: 45-minute performance.
Event Space: Living Ancestor
Year: 2013
Location: Telfair Academy, Savannah, GA
Duration: 45-minute performance.
Event Space: Living Ancestor
Year: 2013
Location: Telfair Academy, Savannah, GA
Duration: 45-minute performance.
Event Space: Living Ancestor
Year: 2013
Location: Telfair Academy, Savannah, GA
Duration: 45-minute performance.
Event Space: Living Ancestor
Year: 2013
Location: Telfair Academy, Savannah, GA
Duration: 45-minute performance.
Illuminate Conception.
Year: 2009
Location: Le Flash, Atlanta, GA
Duration: 3-hour performance.
Lady in Black.
Year: 2009
Location: Studio Clout, Atlanta, Georgia
Duration: 30 minute performance.