SANITY TV: ON LOCATION IN BERLIN, GERMANY, 2018
Photo Credit: Dorothée Brand/Belathee Photography © Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Akademie der Künste, Berlin with Colonial Repercussions curated by Nana Adusei-Poku

SANITY TV: HOLIDAY SPECIAL, 2017
Photo Credit: Courtesy of the artist
Presented with the Studio Museum in Harlem and WNYC The Greene Space

Sanity TV is a performance-for-video work in development. It is an extremely experimental work for me that takes the form of a talk show in which the audience is imaginary and the “guests” - that range from objects to people- are invited into an imaginary dissociative conversational space by myself, the host. This particular work emerged from hitting a conceptual wall while at a residency last summer. My fellow resident artists became my guests and the dialogues, which seem abstract- discussing vampires, kinetic human sculpture and flower kingdom hierarchies- revealed more intense, layered conversations about cruelty, identity on the margins, and self/hood/objecthood in the African diasporic context. I’ve since decided to take this work further by recently by including it in a live performance; very soon it will develop into a series produced summer 2017. This work feels important, yet effortless; it achieves my goal of working with my strengths as an improvisational performer while instantly critically engaging my ongoing inquiry into psychodynamic theory.