ORBIT WORKSHOP
Experiential Echoes (or Black Time)
November 3
6-7:30 PM Eastern
5-6:30 PM Central
3-4:30 PM Pacific
Overview
How can we write repetition and the changing same? Experiential Echoes (or Black Time) will invoke and interrogate Black Time to write into/from/through experiential echoes. We will invite generative flashbacks and premonitions in response to open-ended prompts (visual, sonic, and poetic). We will explore doubling and haunting (writing/ righting /riting) on and off the page.
About the facilitator
GABRIELLE CIVIL is a black feminist performance artist, poet, and writer, originally from Detroit, MI. She has premiered over fifty performance artworks worldwide, most recently the déjà vu—live (2022), Jupiter (2021), and Vigil (2021). Her performance memoirs include Swallow the Fish (2017), Experiments in Joy (2019),(ghost gestures) (2021), the déjà vu (2022), and In & Out of Place (2022). Her writing has also appeared in New Daughters of Africa, Teaching Black, Kitchen Table Translation, Migrating Pedagogies, and Experiments in Joy: a Workbook. A 2019 Rema Hort Mann LA Emerging Artist, she teaches at the California Institute of the Arts. Her work aims to open up space.