Wangechi Mutu Banana Stroke

A Performa 17 Commission

Mon, Nov. 13, 7:00pm Tue, Nov. 14, 7:00pm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Duration: approximately 1 hour Credits Wangechi Mutu Performer: Artist, Standard and Supply Supply and Standard and Consultation: Fabrication Set Hiroko Ishikawa Meek Astrid Zbengheci Raul Production: Oana Botez Givens Ashaka Design: Costume Adhiambo Maureen Mugambi Ronnie Recordist: Sound Thoya Baya Erick OkotiStephen Ngala Akech Otieno Boaz Mbaji Rama Willy Music: Mungai Dru Andrew Producer/Cinematographer/Editor: Edwards Adrienne Curator: Marsha Reid Limor Tomer Sandra Jackson-Dumont RoseLee Goldberg Adrienne Edwards Susanne Vielmetter Victoria Miro Barbara Gladstone Special Thanks: Fund. Commissioning and Performa the Projects, Angeles Los Gallery, Susanne Vielmetter Miro Gallery, Victoria Gladstone Ford Foundation, by the Supported Metropolitan Museum of Art. The at Arts Live with Co-presented

Acknowledgements Work dyed, fermented,orsaturated tocreate abstract hasof workinwhichsheuses been paperthat Mutu builds uponherprocess foranew body New York andNairobi-based Wangechi artist by Derek Walcott. Featuring recitations of“AFar from Africa” Cry encounters and spectacle. anarena of homewithin designedforpublic process, andintimacy warmth kindling the Kenyan the ofherartistic those landscape with paintingintegratesaction layers ofimages in hernative . Theresulting site-specific lives of and details of women depictions of the legislature public consequencestothe andits macro- andmicropolitics, from international and draws multimedia performance, on both The new workis an outgrowth ofalive, sexism, and global environmental wreckage. on issues ofmass overconsumption, tenacious artist. She uses same visual this to take style have beenreappropriatedthat backby the traditional and grotesque femalebodyforms on tropical disease, using faintoutlinesand ofreference,points including medicaltextbooks andanimationsfromperformances, varying Mutu illustrates herportraits, , supernatural, mystical population, tothis talents acounter-narrativeat large with ofassigning popularculture blackfemalebody within the ofRoutinely objectification undertaking the stage. and its artwork both paintings inatotal,immersive environment—as Image credit: Banana Stroke, 2017 Site Specific Action Painting Courtesy of the Artist. Photo Artist. Credit: of the Courtesy Andrew Dru Mungai

Work Artist She studied at the She studied at the works inNew York andNairobi. City Wangechi Mutu , among others. inSydney, Art Contemporary andthe Museum ofin Baden-Baden,the de Montréal, StaatlicheKunsthalle Contemporainin Berlin,Musée D’art Guggenheim Museum Deutsche the (2010). Shehas hadsolo exhibitionsat the Guggenheim’s first Artist of Year (2013), andwas honored as Deutsche Durand Year ofthe Artist Award Brooklynthe Museum’s AsherB. United StatesArtist Grant (2014), University. Shehas received the and received her MFA from Yale (b.1972, Kenya) in Mutu’s work over pastyears. two the interrelation the of abstraction andperformance The Performa 17 biennialartist andcurator discuss Free &OpentoPublic 427 Broadway, NY10013 Performa 17BiennialHub 1:00pm -2:00pm Wednesday, Nov. 15 Edwards Adrienne Conversation and in Mutu Wangechi

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