turn/return
2024

Thrumming the delicate thread that connects us to the unknown ancestors who bore us, cracking into the fissure that separates us from a history we cannot touch through language, an attempt to reach back, through a duet with the imagined bodies of the grandmothers who bared their breasts in acts of embodied protest—a duet with the grandmothers still living present in the muscle, bone and blood of the mover—the attenuated outlines echoing this unending loop of separation and recombination.  


created by Peter Born and Okwui Okpokwasili
videography by Peter Born
video editing by Peter Born
music by Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born

  • staged at the Doris Duke Foundation on the occasion of Creative Labor, Creative Conditions: A Symposium and Celebration of the Doris Duke Artist Awards.

    Doris Duke Foundation, April 22-26, 2024