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It's Time We Talk It's Time We Talk was a performance art exhibition held at Public Space One in Iowa City, Iowa on Saturday, April 14, 2018. Curated by Melissa Airy, a group of 9 female performance artists came together to use live actions and storytelling to speak about their personal experiences as women that they had previously kept private to the world. KYLIE GAVA Kylie Gava was born in Fort Collins, Colorado in 1992. She is currently a Junior majoring in sculpture with a minor in Portuguese. Before coming to the University of Iowa, she studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a focus in painting and drawing. Having grown up with dual citizenship to the United States and Brazil, traveling was always a part of her life. During her time in-between schools, she lived in Brazil learning Portuguese and teaching English and also in traveling within France. Her work often deals with physical and emotional boundaries, using building materials such as, bricks, concrete, insulation, glass and dirt. In her own words: Four days after my dad died, I was assaulted by one of his acquaintances. The open space my father left became a space this man thought he was now free to enter, without consequence. Through my performance, E Agora?, I continuously sharpened my dad's knife. I became my own protector and next in line to generations of men with knives. My performance was accompanied by an audio recoding of the poem, José by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, a very famous Brazilian poet. This poem talks about isolation, fear, and hopelessness in reference to the Brazilian people during World War II. Drummond uses the common name José as a place holder for anybody and nobody. |
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