Is a multimedia performance installation event of radical intimacy and surrender by inviting an audience to experience a bath with a black woman.

CONCEIVED AND PERFORMED BY TANISHA CHRISTIE

2015-2018

“THERE ARE FEW SPACES AS PRIVATE AS THE BATH. IT IS HERE I HAVE PONDERED THE COMPLEXITY OF MY EMOTIONS, MY FEMININITY, MY SORROW AND BLACKNESS UNMEDIATED BY OTHERS. IT IS THE PLACE WHERE I BECOME INTIMATE WITH MY RAGE AND ANGUISH. IT IS HERE THAT I REPLENISH AND REFUEL. WITH THIS WORK, I AM INVITING OTHERS INTO THIS SPACE AND INTO A CONVERSATION OF VULNERABILITY. I’M CURIOUS TO KNOW HOW OTHERS ARE FEELING AND BEING IN LIGHT CURRENT EVENTS - BEYOND SOCIAL MEDIA. IS IT POSSIBLE FOR US TO EXPERIENCE OURSELVES AND OTHERS UNMEDIATED? IS SKIN-COLOR A BARRIER TO COMPASSION? CAN WE RESPECT EACH OTHER’S SORROW? IS THE EXPRESSION OF GRIEF ONLY OF VALUE IN A CONSENSUS OF OPINION? OR IS IT ONLY TO BE CONSUMED? HAVE WE COLLECTIVELY MOURNED OUR INABILITY TO BE HUMANE TO ONE ANOTHER? #THESKINIMIN” - Tanisha Christie

MEDIUMS: PHOTOGRAPHY / VIDEO / AUDIO / INSTALLATION / COLLAGE / PARTICIPATORY PERFORMANCE

WITH CONSPIRATORS:

JD URBAN - VIDEO/AUDIO/PHOTOGRAPHY/BUILDER/DESIGN

CLAUDIA CINQUEGRANA - BUILDER/DESIGN ASST.

STACEY BERRY - DRESS DESIGN / FABRICATION

DRESS FABRIC COLLAGE: THE ARTIST

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KRISTIN HORTON - DIRECTION CONTRIBUTION

JASON MINNIS, EDSON SEAN, CASEY STRATTON - MUSIC CONTRIBUTION

LIZ LERMAN, LIZ WOLFF - MOVEMENT/DANCE CONTRIBUTION

DANIEL ALEXANDER JONES, DEB O, SUE MAKKOO, ADAM HARRISON, ELISE TIRELLI, CHAZZ PADILLA - PROJECT CONTRIBUTION

ITERATION #1, #2 AND #3 @ BROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE (BAX), BROOKLYN, NY (2016, 2017)

ITERATION #4 @ THE SECOND WARD FOUNDATION, HUDSON, NY (2018)