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Thursday, June 19th, 2025 from 18:30 to 19:30
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Conférence - Une mémoire du corps féminin. La performativité dans l'œuvre de Senga Nengudi
Conférence - Une mémoire du corps féminin. La performativité dans l'œuvre de Senga Nengudi
June 19th 2025
METZ
Centre Pompidou-Metz Parvis des Droits-de-l'Homme
DR - source Ville de Metz
A memory of the female body - performativity in the work of Senga NengudiBy Laureen PICAUTince the early 1960s, Senga Nengudi has been composing abstract, performative portraits of the experience of the black, female body through the association of stretched, knotted, bunched and sand-filled tights, activated during choreographed actions in collaboration with artist Maren Hassinger.
Her radical experimentation with materials is imbued with a social, bodily, intimate and political charge. Her performative installations, situated at the intersection of black feminism and the demands of the American civil rights movement, are part of the post-minimalist debates of the 1970s.
An analysis of RSVP Performance Piece (1978), a landmark series that crystallizes the essence of her approach, offers insights into the themes inherent in her work: memory, spirituality, the psychological dimension of female experience, and the role of the audience within the performed environments she creates.
Her radical experimentation with materials is imbued with a social, bodily, intimate and political charge. Her performative installations, situated at the intersection of black feminism and the demands of the American civil rights movement, are part of the post-minimalist debates of the 1970s.
An analysis of RSVP Performance Piece (1978), a landmark series that crystallizes the essence of her approach, offers insights into the themes inherent in her work: memory, spirituality, the psychological dimension of female experience, and the role of the audience within the performed environments she creates.
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Conférence - Une mémoire du corps féminin. La performativité dans l'œuvre de Senga Nengudi
- https://www.centrepompidou-metz.fr/fr/programmation/conference/une-memoire-du-corps-feminin-la-performativite-dans-loeuvre-de-senga-nengudi
- Centre Pompidou-Metz1 parvis des Droits-de-l'Homme57000 METZ
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