This is a six-hour performance installation conceived and directed by Chinasa Vivian Ezugha that invites audiences to consider the labor of food production
An interesting and thought-provoking performance is taking place in NYUAD examining how food is potentially used as a weapon of warfare throughout the world.
How is food used as a weapon of warfare? Through a series of performative provocations, the Theater Program’s fall production speaks to food politics in relation to the impact on the environment, economics, and identity.
Ikwe na odu [Igbo for “mortar and pestle”] is a six-hour performance installation conceived and directed by Chinasa Vivian Ezugha that invites audiences to consider the labor of food production.
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In addition to the performance installation, there will be a symposium, Art, Activism and Food; performance practice and food politics that invites artists from the global south and U.K. and the NYUAD and UAE community to respond to themes around activism, performance, and food.
NYU Abu Dhabi currently chairs the Universities Climate Network, which comprises UAE-based universities and higher education institutions to facilitate dialogues, workshops, public events, policy briefs, and youth participation in the lead up to and beyond COP28.
Guiding the events will be Assistant Arts Professor of Live Art/Art as Social Practice Chinasa Vivian Ezugha, a PhD candidate at the University of Exeter. Her interdisciplinary practice spans Live Art, film, and drawing, questioning her identity as a Black woman living in England.
Her works have been presented at SPILL Festival (2018), Performance Space (2018), In Between Time Festival (2017), ECOS (Bilbao, 2017), Songs for President (New York, 2015), and Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival (Chicago, 2015).
Tickets to this performance are free of charge but online reservation is required. For enquiries, please email nyuad.boxoffice@nyu.edu
Date
9-12 November
Location
Various locations in NYU Abu Dhabi
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