Athi-Patra Ruga: The Elder of Azania
- When
- Sat Feb 22, 2014
- Where
- Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
- Time
- 6pm
- Cost
- $10
- Tags
- Arts, Museums, Modern Art Museums
Description
Athi-Patra Ruga's ongoing performance series The Future White Women of Azania (2010‒present) features fantastical characters — usually played by the artist — whose upper bodies sprout colorful, liquid-filled balloons, while their lower bodies pose or move in stockings and heels. Drawn from both classical Greek and Roman accounts of southern Africa and activists' dreams of a pre- and post-apartheid black African utopia, Ruga's Azania occurs as a state in flux: the Future White Women's liquid-filled balloons droop and pop, and the character dissolves to reveal a performer. Ruga's new work, The Elder of Azania, introduces another shape-shifter: a spiritual figure, both king and trickster, both Xhosa's goat spirit and Vaslav Nijinsky's famous faun.Part of Live Projects 4
More Info
- Call
- 415-978-2787 (Box Office)
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