NADA House, Governors Island
May 2 – August 4, 2019

Based on her two year performance where she wore a laminated sign on her back that read "I Just Came Here To Find a Husband" at events where she hoped to find a life partner, Ayana Evans will be leading a workshop on the craft of screenprint on t-shirts and the hunt for love.
 
Audiences are encouraged to participate to learn more about this technique--become part of the performance when you wear your own hidden desires on a shirt.

This event is in conjunction with the NADA House installation on Governors Island, My Colonial Get-away: Fu**it, I Ain’t Budging.

Photos taken by Leslie Jean-Bart

AYANA EVANS’ My Colonial Get-away: Fu** It, I Ain't Budgin’ is an immersive installation of video projections, customized textiles, and lithographs with Chine Collé on plexi printed at EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop that reference the signature outfit of her series Operation Catsuit. Evans uses participatory performance art and experimental print techniques to reformat not just how we see and use materials, but how we question social hierarchies and race.

Performances // Saturday, May 4 - 1pm and 3pm
AYANA EVANS performance My Colonial Get-away: Fu** It, I Ain't Budgin' is a feminist takeover of space and a demand for participants to do things together in honor of Black women, while questioning ideas of social boundaries and utilizing fantasy as a way to uplift one's daily circumstances.



AYANA EVANS is a NYC based artist. She frequently visits her hometown of Chicago whose community is a major influence on her art. Evans received her MFA in painting from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University and her BA in Visual Arts from Brown University. In 2015, she received the Jerome Foundation’s Theater and Travel & Study Grant for artistic research abroad. During Summer 2016 Evans completed her installment of the residency, “Back in Five Minutes” at El Museo Del Barrio in NYC. She completed a performance series this Spring 2017 for “A Person of the Crowd” at the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA; as well as FAIP an international performance festival, Martinique; “Light Happenings II” presented by Lab Bodies, Baltimore, MD; and Rapid Pulse Retrospective, Chicago, IL. Evans also performed at Ghana’a Chale Wote festival in August 201, was a 2018 Fellow in the Studio Immersion Program at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, a program of the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, and is a current 2018 NYFA Fellow for Interdisciplinary Arts. She is Editor at Large for www.cultbytes.com. Her recent press includes articles on New York Magazine’s The Cut, Hyperallergic, the Huffington Post, gallerygurls.net, and CNN.
 

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