Milkweed Books
1011 Washington Ave. S.
Open Book, First Floor
Minneapolis, MN 55415
United States
Free and open to the public
A celebration of artist and scholar Gabrielle Civil’s new performance memoir, Swallow the Fish (Civil Coping Mechanisms).
Civil will perform her piece “economy,” featured in Swallow the Fish, in which she creates original work on a typewriter for shoppers in real time. Books will be available for purchase and signing, and for each person who buys a copy at Milkweed Books, Civil will write and sign a personalized typed poem or love letter. Materials provided for visitors to pen their own poems, too.
Gabrielle Civil is a black feminist performance artist, originally from Detroit, MI. She has premiered over 40 original solo and collaborative performance works around the world. The aim of her work is to open up space.