Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents Poor People’s TV Room. Bessie Award-winning artist Okwui Okpokwasili uses an intensely visual and textured lens to look at issues of gender, culture, and identity as they are expressed in American and global contexts. Integrating choreography, song, text, and film, Poor People’s TV Room crosses disciplines to make a visceral performance where the past is alive and unleashed in the present. It draws from historical events in order to explore the amnesia around collective action in Nigeria, initiated by African women, and to build a narrative around the impact of that erasure. MCA Chicago will organize multiple related activities.