Swallow the Fish

Synopsis

[a] Memoir In Performance Art That Explores The Medium From Within Its Beating Heart. Adding Its Voice To Black Feminist Conversations, It Combines Essays, Anecdotes, And Meditations With Original Performance Texts To Confront Audience, Motivation, And Fears. Both Joy And Panic Appear In Civil's World Of Performance, Where Neither Walls Nor City Limits Set The Scope Of The Stage. Civil Bares Vulnerabilities And Enthralls Readers, Asking Essential Questions And Embodying Dreams.--page 4 Of Cover. Prefaces : About Myself And This Book -- Début : On My First Performance Art Stirrings -- Hieroglyphics : On Performance Art, Politics And Aftermath -- Fat Black Performance Art : On Race, Body And Performance Art -- Brown Skin, Brown Bag : On Performance Art (on Display) In The Academy -- My Romance : On Performance Art (and) Desire -- Heart On A Sleeve : On Performance Art Exposure (synthesis) -- The Catalogue Of Ships : Production Notes, Books And Peeps. By Gabrielle Civil. Includes Bibliographical References.