BATHTUB
Is a multimedia performance installation event of radical intimacy and surrender by inviting an audience to experience a bath with a black woman.
lake lucille workshop (2015)
There are few space as private as the bath. It is here that I have pondered the complexity of my emotion, my femininity, my sorrow and my blackness unmediated by others.It is the place where I become intimate with my rage and my 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. Im curious to know how others are feeling and being in light - beyond social media.
Target margin workshop (featuring Jason minnis) 2016
Is it possible for us to experience ourselves and others unmediated? Is skin color a barrier to compassion?
Brooklyn Arts Exchange (2017)
Can we respect each others sorrow? Is the expression of grief only of value in a consensus of opinion? or is it only to be consumed?
second ward foundation, 2018
Have WE collectively mourned our inability to be humane to one another? #TheSkinImIn
credits
MEDIUMS: PHOTOGRAPHY / VIDEO / AUDIO / INSTALLATION / COLLAGE / PARTICIPATORY PERFORMANCE
CONCEIVED AND PERFORMED BY TANISHA CHRISTIE
WITH CONSPIRATORS:
JD URBAN - VIDEO/AUDIO/PHOTOGRAPHY/BUILDER/DESIGN
CLAUDIA CINQUEGRANA - BUILDER/DESIGN ASST.
STACEY BERRY - DRESS DESIGN / FABRICATION
DRESS FABRIC COLLAGE: THE ARTIST
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)
INSTALLATION FOR NFINIT FOUNDATION, EXHIBITION: BANG TEMPLE BROOKLYN, NY (2019)
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