April 16 – 20, 2014
Installation and durational performance
5 days
“2014 Whitney Biennial,” curated by Anthony Elms, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Underwaters (we is ready, we is ready) was a continuous performance enacted from the morning of April 16 to the afternoon of April 20, 2014. The score led me through subtle choreographies and actions, some of which carried me out to the city streets and in and out of different emotional-kinesthetic bodies, thinking through dissociation and agency, trauma and blackness. During the week, I lived in silence with the exception of designated actions within my performance score, one of which included interviewing other artists of color (including Niv Acosta, Callie Lyons, April Matthis, Kenya Robinson, Regina Rocke, Kaneza Schaal, and Ni’ja Whitson) around questions of Black performance.