TELL THE BODY curated by Fabiyino Germain-Bajowa
In her program, Fabiyino Germain-Bajowa brings together video works that explore the relationship between language and the senses as constructions of knowledge. Through videos of poetry, dance, oral history, and documentary, layers of thought are uncovered, giving form to the immaterial nature of language. Tell the Body explores the capacity for language, the immaterial, to be given physical form within the body through Afro-diasporic experience. The program touches on the capacity for the immaterial to inform the physical, producing ways of knowing that are sensuous in nature and exist in material form only within individual bodies, returning to a space of liminality as they are passed from one to another. FG-B
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2022 @7pm ET | Katrin Bowen and Tanya Evanson, Almost Forgot My Bones, 2004, 5:00
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2022 @7pm ET | Donna James, Maigre Dog, 1990, 7:50
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 2022 @7pm ET | Karen Miranda Augustine, I call myself, 2001, 2:30
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2022 @7pm ET | Nadine Valcin, Emergence, 2017, 6:35
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 2022 @7pm ET | Dawn Wilkinson, Dandelions, 1995, 5:30
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 2022 @7pm ET | Louise Liliefeldt, Hamartia, 2001, 11:00
And LIVE ONLINE conversation between Fabiyino Germain-Bajowa and the featured artists.
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Fabiyino Germain-Bajowa is a Nigerian-Canadian writer, curator, and interdisciplinary artist based in Tkaronto/Toronto. Her writing engages care theory, community, afro-futurism, and the archive. Her art practice and research centre Afro-diasporic experience to build an understanding of the ways archives of physical and immaterial knowledge are constructed in the Black community.
For more information: contact Artistic Director Lisa Steele, lisas@vtape.org