


Tue, Oct 29
|Chicago
Gabrielle Civil: In & Out of Place
w/ Anna Martine Whitehead & Allison Yasukawa
Time & Location
Oct 29, 2024, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Chicago, 2233 S Throop St Suite 502 Floor 5, Chicago, IL 60608, USA
About the event
Come join House of the Lorde as we celebrate Gabrielle Civil’s performance memoir In & Out of Place, with Anna Martine Whitehead and Allison Yasukawa! Featuring live readings, art gestures, images, video, and snacks, this event will explore artistic process, heritage and identity, border crossing, and more, inspired by Gabrielle’s experience making Black feminist performance art in Mexico.
This event is free to the public.
Masks encouraged.
About the book:
What does it mean to be in a place and out of place at the same time? Gabrielle Civil explores this question by making black feminist performance art in Mexico. She asks unsuspecting Mexicans if they have good hair, visits legendary black expatriate artist Elizabeth Catlett, celebrates Obama’s first election with mariachis, embarks on love affairs, dresses up as a Mexican doll, and christens herself with Negrita rum. Archiving her 2008-2009 Fulbright fellowship project, In and Out of Place combines…