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)