how’s work? (from rsvp)

featuring Molly van Avery
January 2006, No. 1 Gold Presents RSVP: work / play / process, Center for Independent Artists, Minneapolis, MN

How’s Work? (with Molly van Avery in RSVP)
“No wonder they wanted our Mammy’s milk…Gabrielle Civil’s post-modern depiction of the trials of all us Mammies of Academe is an historical self-serve leche league of Black folk. Civil’s Mammy production quells colonizing repetitiveness with a sole stream of fluid from her left bosom—bare—and she civilizes the current pallid savage’s curiosity to know the Other (us mod-Mammies) through touch. In this case of performative representation, this Mammy, Gabrielle, has made 4-year liberal arts white girls her name sake: Civil.” —Lisa Arrastía