poor people’s tv room solo is a video and performance installation that considers duration and urgent complaint as critical aspects of an embodied protest practice. Text from the report commissioned by the British Colonial Government in 1930 to investigate the uprising of women in Nigeria, serves as the primary source material. This uprising, known as the Woman’s War of 1929, was also referred to as the Woman’s Egwu. Egwu, in the Igbo language of Indigenous Nigeria, means dance. This work emphasizes the linguistic tie between performance and protest.