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Black: :Body: :Gesture: From Puppetry To Performance & Design, Gabrielle Civil, Kelly Walters
Black: :Body: :Gesture: From Puppetry To Performance & Design, Gabrielle Civil, Kelly Walters
Living Objects: African American Puppetry Essays
In this visual document, Gabrielle Civil and Kelly Walters distill and recreate key aspects of their live dialogue on African-American puppetry, black performance art, material and digital design. What are examples of African American living objects in the 21st century? What does it mean to animate objects when, as a people, we were once considered to be living objects ourselves? Drawing on their own practice, these artists engaged these questions, activated audience discussion, and transformed the results into a new source text for further activation.