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, staple bound.
Self published by Co—Conspirator Press with the support of Feminist Center for Creative Work. Designed by MJ Balvanera, Riso-printed by Neko Natalia, Binding by Cynthia Navarro of Tiny Splendor. Third edition published October 2020, edition of 500.
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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.
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