Explain Totality (version 3) (2018)
I perform moshing movements over a recording of me singing and reading poems and prose about my suburban upbringing and the racialized history of U.S. suburbs. I then sing a capella, inviting the audience to sing along. From a series of performances about my own Black suburban upbringing and the ubiquity of punk music.
Dressed in gym shorts, a t shirt, and sneakers, I perform in a bright, spacious church surrounded by audience seated in an arch. I lunge, swaying back and forth as I sing into a mic and point the mic at the them.
Approx 20 min
Captions by Jo Chiang
Appearances:
(video documentation)
LEAN
Kunsthall Stavanger
March 4 – April 24, 2021
(digital, video documentation)
LEAN
Performa’s Radical Broadcast
December 1, 2020 – January 31, 2021
(live)
Movement Research at the Judson Church
October 22, 2018