Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston · Boston · US

sweat variant

Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born

Opens Feb 11, 2027 – Aug 1, 2027

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sweat variant, the collaborative practice of Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born, has made collaborative genre-defying performances since 1996. Integrating dance, theater, writing, and the visual arts, their work demonstrates great formal and sonic experimentation and explores themes of inheritance, Black interiority, and the power of ritual. For the ICA/Boston, Okpokwasili and Born present a new moving image installation centered on the themes of transmission and absence, embodied inheritance, and the residue of grief also explored in acclaimed recent performances let slip, hold sway, and the a…