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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Okwui_OkpokwasiliOkwui Okpokwasili - Wikipedia

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   Okwui Okpokwasili is a Nigerian-American artist, performer, choreographer, and writer. She creates multidisciplinary works that explore cultural and historical memory, especially in relation to Nigeria and African women.

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     In Conversation: Autumn Knight and Okwui Okpokwasili

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     Agatha All Along - Official 'Summoning The Green Witch' Clip

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     PillowTalk: Okwui Okpokwasili & Saidiya Hartman

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3. www.nytimes.com › okwui-okpokwasili-artistA Performance Artist Testing the Limits of Her Own Endurance

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   Aug 7, 2019 · In deeply personal works such as the acclaimed “Bronx Gothic,” Okwui Okpokwasili explores ideas of cultural memory through poetry and visceral body-wringing choreography.

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4. www.moma.org › magazine › articlesA River of Voices: An Interview with Okwui Okpokwasili - MoMA

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   Aug 5, 2022 · The choreographer and performer talks about her new project, a story about hair and lineage, and her approach to storytelling and imagination. She also reflects on her identity as a Nigerian-Igbo woman and her relationship with MoMA's collection and audience.

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6. gagosian.com › quarterly › 2023/11/02The Road Opens: In Conversation with Okwui Okpokwasili ...

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   Nov 2, 2023 · Multidisciplinary artist Okwui Okpokwasili discusses her new work adaku, part 1: the road opens, which explores precolonial Nigerian cultures and narratives. She reveals how she reaches back to see forward, and how she creates a slippery and complex world for her coven of witches.

7. arts.brown.edu › people › okwui-okpokwasiliOkwui Okpokwasili | Brown Arts - Brown University

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   Okwui Okpokwasili is a Brooklyn based performer, choreographer and writer creating multidisciplinary performance pieces. The child of immigrants from Nigeria, Okpokwasili was born and raised in the Bronx, and the histories of these places and the girls and women who inhabit them feature prominently in much of her work.

8. www.nytimes.com › 2017/04/14 › artsAn Artist Who Blurs Bodies and Genres in Protest - The New ...

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   Apr 14, 2017 · Exploring themes of memory and invisibility, Ms. Okpokwasili, who is Nigerian-American, is joined by three women ranging in age from their late 20s to late 60s. (The oldest is the South...

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   Who is Okwui Okpokwasili?

   • Okwui Okpokwasili (/ ˈoʊkwi oʊkˈpoʊkwəsɪli /; born August 6, 1972) is a Nigerian-American artist, performer, choreographer, and writer. Her multidisciplinary performances draw upon her training in theatre, and she describes her work as at "the intersection of theatre, dance, and the installation."

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   What does Okpokwasili do?

   • Okpokwasili and the other performers sing, slow dance and lie with each other. In one sequence, the artist appears to drink milk from another woman’s breast. They possess heritage and love, political and social agency. The identity of victimhood does not count for all that they are, all that they will be.

   A Performance Artist Testing the Limits of Her Own Endurance

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   How does Okwui Okpokwasili respond to questions?

   • Todd Heisler/The New York Times When Okwui Okpokwasili talks about her work, she treats each question like a knot to be unraveled, physically as much as verbally. Emphatic gestures punctuate her sentences, or complete them, as if movement might summon the answer.

   An Artist Who Blurs Bodies and Genres in Protest

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   What is Okpokwasili's universe?

   • Elemental as its origins may be, Okpokwasili’s universe, her alternative to the fixity of history, is a means to opening up new imaginative futures. “This is in the service of this particular world of women, femme folks, queer folks,” she said. “There’s an elemental thing we’re doing together and making.

   The road opens: In conversation with okwui okpokwasili

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10. www.youtube.com › watchChoreographer and Performer Okwui Okpokwasili | 2018 ...

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    Okwui Okpokwasili is a choreographer and performer making visible the interior lives of women whose stories of resistance and resilience have been left out of dominant cultural...

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