In & Out of Place: Book Release Celebration w/ Gabrielle Civil

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The Free Black Women's Library
presents
In & Out of Place with Gabrielle Civil
Saturday, March 22
3PM - 5PM
Join us as we celebrate the release of artist Gabrielle Civil's new book In & Out of Place.
This event will feature live reading, projections, videos, and interactive performance.
Documenting her time making Black feminist performance art in Mexico, In & Out of Place engages questions of Blackness, identity, location, and artistic process. Overlapping book and image, shifting from self to others, this event will enact border crossing on the page and in the space.

We will have copies of the book for sale via Taylor & Co Books.
Artist Bio:
Gabrielle Civil is a black feminist performance artist, poet, and writer, originally from Detroit, MI. Her recent performances include My San Francisco (2024) and Black Weirdo School (Pop Up Critique) (2023). Her series of performance memoirs, a chronicle of performance body, includes: Swallow the Fish (2017), Experiments in Joy (2019), (ghost gestures) (2021), the déjà vu (2022) and In & Out of Place (2024). This last volume recounts her experience living and making art as a Fulbright fellow in Mexico. Her writing also appears in New Daughters of Africa, Teaching Black, Kitchen Table Translation, and A Mouth Holds Many Things. Foundress of the Black Weirdo School, she earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from New York University and teaches at the California Institute of the Arts. The aim of her work is to open up space.

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