November 10th at 7:30 PM

Asia stewart:
retail Therapy

Retail Therapy is a performance in which Asia Stewart creates a dress made of translucent plastic hangers and clothing donated by the audience. In Stewart's performance, she challenges the capitalist desire to accumulate goods and asks the question, why is it that we collect so many "things." 

This will be performed as part of a double bill with Hector Canonge: ALTIBAJOS (Ups & Downs)

About the artists

Asia Stewart:

Asia Stewart is a Brooklyn-based performance artist whose conceptual work centers the body as a living archive. After receiving degrees in the social sciences from Cambridge and Harvard University, she has sought ways to transform the language specific to studies of race, gender, sexuality, and diaspora into materials that can be felt and worn on the body. Having also studied musical theater and classical voice, Stewart uses her past experiences on stage to inject her work with a heightened sense of theatricality. Stewart routinely questions how she can best document her performances and represent movement and physicality across mediums. Her works in video and installation have been exhibited at venues across the United States, including the Mercury Store, Untitled Space, NARS Foundation, Goodyear Arts, A.I.R. Gallery, Kellen Gallery, and Anthology Film Archives. Her first series of prints is also now held in the permanent collection of the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC.