Black Weirdo School (Pop Up Critique)

In need of an ART BOOST with a jolt of BLACK FEMINISM? Gabrielle Civil’s Black Weirdo School (Pop Up Critique) created space to witness, experiment, study, and play with other artists/creatives/weirdos. Participants brought a LIVING OBJECT with them—something representing their creative practice, something they were willing to have witnessed and appreciated, something suitable for the classroom! Part workshop, part ritual, part improvisation, Black Weirdo School (Pop Up Critique) activated instant art education and recharged participants’ CREATIVE ENERGY.

About Gabrielle Civil

Gabrielle Civil (She/Her) is a black feminist performance artist, poet, and writer, originally from Detroit, MI. She has premiered over fifty solo and collaborative performances around the world including Murmurations (2023), Translated Bodies (2023), the déjà vu—live (2022) and Jupiter (2021). Her performance memoirs include Swallow the Fish (2017), Experiments in Joy (2019), (ghost gestures) (2021), and the déjà vu (2022). Her writing has also appeared in New Daughters of Africa, Kitchen Table Translation, Migrating Pedagogies, DanceNotes, and Experiments in Joy: a Workbook. Her performance stills and videos have been exhibited online and in California, Ohio, Minnesota, Brazil, and Mexico where she lived as a Fulbright Fellow. In 2023, she served as a Performance Fellow at Franconia Sculpture Park in Fraser, MN and as an Artist-in-Residence at Automata Arts in Los Angeles. She teaches at the California Institute of the Arts. The aim of her work is to open up space.