Eisa Davis: The Essentialisnt

JACK, New York City

Award-winning creator and actor Eisa Davis transforms JACK into a contemporary art museum hosting The Essentialisn’t – a transatlantic undrowning —in a pasture of hair. This original sound-based conceptual art work uses movement, voice and electronics to reanimate modernist figures from the Harlem Renaissance. Focusing on a central question – “Can you be black and not perform?” Davis cultivates a black feminine practice of presence and sovereignty.