How to Make an Object Speak in Tongues: An Artist Talk with Keioui Keijaun Thomas
NYU’s Performance Studies Department is thrilled to welcome Keioui Keijaun Thomas to the department for ‘How to Make an Object Speak in Tongues' on Thursday, November 10th at 7pm ET. This event will include an artist talk featuring screenings of selected work from Keioui Keijaun Thomas followed by a brief Q&A and discussion between Thomas and PS Alum and Adjunct instructor, Ethan Philbrick.
Keioui Keijaun Thomas creates live performance and multimedia installations that deconstruct and reconstruct notions of blackness, visibility, hyper-visibility, passing, trespassing, eroticization, marginalization, disposability, and domesticity. Her performances combine rhapsodic layers of live and recorded voice, slipping between various modes of address, exploring the pleasures and pressures of dependency, care, and support.
Read more about her work in this article from the New York Times.
Photo Credit: Come Hell or High Femmes: The Dolls Will Survive, Octopus Series, Performance Space New York, 2021. photo: Maria Baranova
IMPORTANT ATTENDANCE INFORMATION:
This event is open to the general public. Reserving a ticket in advance is REQUIRED. Please use the event link above to book a ticket before 4pm of the day of the event.
All guests will be required to show a government ID and proof of vaccination at the door. More information on NYU's Guest Policies can be found here.
About the Artist:
Keioui Keijaun Thomas (b. 1989, based in Brooklyn, New York) is the inaugural winner of the Queer|Art 2020 Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists and the Franklin Furnace Fund Recipient for 2018. She earned her Masters degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BFA with Honors from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Thomas has presented work both nationally and internationally at ANTI - Contemporary Art Festival, Kuopio, Finland (2019); Fierce Festival, Birmingham, Uk (2019); MoCA Skopje, Skopje, Macedonia (2020); Creamcake Festival, Berling, Germany (2021); The Rhubarb Festival, Toronto, Canada (2020); Time Based Arts Festival, Portland, Oregon (2016); Dweller Festival, Brooklyn, NY (2020); Rapid Pulse Performance Art Festival, Chicago, IL (2016); SPILL Festival of Performance, Ipswich, UK (2014); Out of Site Festival, Chicago, IL (2014). Solo Performances at Participant, INC, New York, NY (2021); Housing NY, Brooklyn, NY (2016); The Knockdown Center, New York, NY (2018), Performance Space UK, Folkestone, UK (2016); and Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA (2015)