Visiting Artist Lecture: Gabrielle Civil

This lecture is presented as part of the fall 2021 Visiting Artist Lecture Series, free and open to all. Registration is required.

GABRIELLE CIVIL is a black feminist performance artist, poet, and writer, originally from Detroit, MI. She has premiered fifty performance art works around the world, most recently Jupiter (2021) and Vigil (2021). Her performance memoirs include Swallow the Fish (2017) and Experiments in Joy (2019), ( ghost gestures ) (2021), and the déjà vu (2022). Her writing has also appeared in Kitchen Table Translation, New Daughters of Africa, and Experiments in Joy: a Workbook. 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.