EXPERIMENTS IN JOY: A WORKBOOK
Created by Black women artists, this dynamic workbook can help you shift joy from a feeling to a practice. Engage its prompts, reflections, and resources for personal and creative transformation!
Compiled by Gabrielle Civil with contributions by Call & Response Artists Gabrielle Civil, Duriel E. Harris, Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle, Rosamond S. King, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Miré Regulus and Awilda Rodríguez Lora.
Size: 5" x 7.5", 64 pages
Self published by Co—Conspirator Press with the support of Feminist Center for Creative Work.
Designed by MJ Balvanera, Riso-printed by Neko Natalia.
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EXPERIMENTOS EN ALEGRÍA: UN LIBRO DE EJERCICIOS
Este libro de actividades dinámico, creado por mujeres negras artistas, puede ayudarte a trasladar la alegría del sentimiento hacia la práctica. ¡Interactúa con sus propuestas, reflexiones y recursos para la transformación personal y creativa!
Compilado por Gabrielle Civil con contribuciones de las artistas de la Llamada y Respeusta Gabrielle Civil, Duriel E. Harris, Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle, Rosamond S. King, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Miré Regulus y Awilda Rodríguez Lora.
Tamaño: 5" x 7.5", 64 paginas
Diseño editorial por MJ Balvanera. Carta edición publicada en español en abril del 2023, edición de 200. Auto-publicado por Co—Conspirator Press e Impresos México con el apoyo del Feminist Center for Creative Work. Impreso y encuadernado en riso por Can Can Press en la Ciudad de México.
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GABRIELLE CIVIL
Gabrielle Civil (she/her) is a black feminist performance artist, poet, and writer, originally from Detroit MI. She has premiered fifty original performance artworks around the world including in Puerto Rico, The Gambia, Ghana, Canada, Zimbabwe, and Mexico where she lived as a Fulbright Fellow. Her performance memoirs include Swallow the Fish (2017), Experiments in Joy (2019), (ghost gestures) (2021) and the déjà vu (2022). She was lead contributor to Experiments in Joy: a Workbook (2019), and her writing has also appeared in Dancing While Black, Teaching Black, Kitchen Table Translation, Migrating Pedagogies, and New Daughters of Africa. A 2019 Rema Hort Mann LA Emerging Artist, she teaches at the California Institute of the Arts. The aim of her work is to open up space.
Join Gabrielle’s mailing list or get in touch with her at experimentsinjoy@gmail.com.
Gabrielle Civil (ella) es una escritora negra, feminista, artista de performance y poeta de Detroit, Michigan. Ha estrenado cincuenta piezas de performance originales alrededor del mundo, incluyendo Puerto Rico, Gambia, Ghana, Canada, Zimbabwe y Mexico, donde vivió mientras fue beneficiaria de la beca Fulbright. Las memorias de performance incluyen Swallow the Fish (2017), Experiments in Joy (2019), (ghost gestures) (2021) y the déjà vu (2022). Fue la principal autora de “Experimentos en Alegría (2019) y sus textos también han sido publicados en Dancing While Black, Teaching Black, Kitchen Table Translation, Migrating Pedagogies, y New Daughters of Africa. En 2019 fue declarada como Artista Emergente de Rema Hortensia MANN LA, y es instructora en el California Institute of the Arts. El propósito de su trabajo es abrir el espacio.
Puedes unirte a su lista de correo o contactarla en experimentsinjoy@gmail.com.
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