BY BECCI DAVIS
A 360˚ VIRTUAL EXPERIENCE
APRIL 30 - MAY 15
APRIL 30 - MAY 15
ABOUT
WHOSE NAME
WAS WRIT
IN WATER
BY BECCI DAVIS
A 360˚ VIRTUAL EXPERIENCE, PRESENTED WITH MUSAE
This three-part performance is based on the notion that nature bears witness to history. That water holds the secrets to lost narratives of the past and documents the events of the present for future generations.
Whose Name Was Writ in Water features dual narratives woven together; the interrogation of history through an imagined conversation with the artist’s enslaved 4th great-grandmother and a rite of passage for her teenage son. Water serves as the device that connects them through time and space. By questioning the past, the artist attempts to navigate the present through ritual, labor, the exploration of landscapes, examination of old family snapshots and documents, original and appropriated poetry, and photography.
Whose Name Was Writ in Water features dual narratives woven together; the interrogation of history through an imagined conversation with the artist’s enslaved 4th great-grandmother and a rite of passage for her teenage son. Water serves as the device that connects them through time and space. By questioning the past, the artist attempts to navigate the present through ritual, labor, the exploration of landscapes, examination of old family snapshots and documents, original and appropriated poetry, and photography.
PRODUCTION MEDIA
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Becci Davis was born on a military installation in Georgia named after General Henry L. Benning of the Confederate States Army. Her birth initiated her family’s first generation after the Civil Rights Act and its fifth generation post-Emancipation. Becci is a Rhode Island-based interdisciplinary artist who finds inspiration in exploring natural and cultural landscapes, in addition to her experiences as a daughter, mother, American, and Southern born and raised, Black woman.
After earning a MFA from Lesley University College of Art and Design, Becci was the recipient of the St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award in Visual Art, the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship in New Genres, the Providence Public Library Creative Fellowship, and the RISD Museum Artist Fellowship. Becci lives with her family in Wakefield, Rhode Island, maintains a studio in Providence, and is currently an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Visual Art at Brown University.
Becci's previous work with The Wilbury Group includes performances in God Talks to An Agnostic and Fire Flowers and a Time Machine.
After earning a MFA from Lesley University College of Art and Design, Becci was the recipient of the St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award in Visual Art, the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship in New Genres, the Providence Public Library Creative Fellowship, and the RISD Museum Artist Fellowship. Becci lives with her family in Wakefield, Rhode Island, maintains a studio in Providence, and is currently an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Visual Art at Brown University.
Becci's previous work with The Wilbury Group includes performances in God Talks to An Agnostic and Fire Flowers and a Time Machine.
ABOUT
An award-winning*, not-for-profit professional theatre company, the Wilbury Theatre Group engages our community in thought-provoking conversation through new works, reimagined classics and adventurous playmaking. We are idealistic, ambitious, and stubborn in our resolve to create theatre that entertains, enlightens, and inspires.
*WINNER of the 2018 National Theatre Company Grant from the American Theatre Wing (The Tony Awards).
*WINNER of the 2018 National Theatre Company Grant from the American Theatre Wing (The Tony Awards).
