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I WISH TO SHOW TO YOU NOW MY LABOR AND MY SEEDS AND MY PARTS. WHAT YOU SEE HERE
IS NOT THE PERSON I AM. IT IS OF THE THING I DO AND OF THE THING IT DOES. 


I WISH TO SHOW TO YOU NOW MY LABOR AND MY SEEDS AND MY PARTS. WHAT YOU SEE HERE
IS NOT THE PERSON I AM. IT IS OF THE THING I DO AND OF THE THING IT DOES. 






OPENING RECITATION // “TSIBAH”




TOMORROW
YOU WILL DANCE 
BY THE SEASIDE
THAT CRIES MOVEMENT

AND BY YOUR OWN VOLITION
YOU WILL DIP IN A PIECE OF WHOLENESS
TO CLEANSE 
ALL THOSE WHO DARED 
IT COMMANDS YOU 
KISS THE WATER
SO THAT THE TONGUE TASTES ONLY SALT
A GIFT
SO THAT YOU CAN REMEMBER ME WHEN YOU STRUGGLE TOMORROW
YOU MUST STRUGGLE
TOMORROW YOU WILL

YOU WILL TOO 
WAKE UP 
ON THE OTHER SIDE
IN THE MORNING
RELIEVED
TOMORROW
 
IN YOU GROWS A NEW DELIGHT,
A NEW PRAISE,
A NEW SONG,
OH,
HALLELUJAH! 
TO BE FREE
LIKE THIS
YOU WILL SEE TOMORROW
THAT THERE
THERE IS NO 
HIGHEST HONOR




WELL THEN,
I WILL NOT WAIT FOR TOMORROW.








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I TRAVERSE POETRY, SCULPTURE, PERFORMANCE, AND SOUND. USING VOICE AS AN
INSTRUMENT AND THE BODY AS A VESSEL FOR MOVEMENT, I EXPLORE THE SENSIBILITIES OF
THE PARTICULAR HUMAN CONDITION OF THE OPPRESSED - FROM GRIEF AND ANGUISH TO JOY
AND IMAGINATION. MY WORK CENTERS ON THE UNTETHERING OF THE AFRICAN CONTINENT
FROM THE WEST BY DISMANTLING THE FORMS OF WOOD AND STEEL AND CONNECTING CLAY
BODIES WITH WIRES TO CONTEXTUALIZE THE DISPOSSESSION OF BLACK IDENTITY IN
RELATIONSHIP TO POWER. OSCILLATING BETWEEN THE MATERIALITY OF FOUND OBJECTS AND
NATURAL RESOURCES, I CLOSELY EXAMINE WHAT IS INHERITED, FROM TRADITIONS TO
SYSTEMS. ADDRESSING THE ECOLOGICAL, I BUILD WITH DIRT AND EMBELLISH WORKS WITH
PAINTS AND FOLIAGE, EACH COLOR AND PLANT SYMBOLIC TO PARTS OF AFRICA, AS A WAY
TO PERMEATE CONTEMPORARY WORLDS WITH PRE-COLONIAL WISDOMS. AS I RENDER THE
REALITIES OF BLACK PEOPLE ACROSS THE DIASPORA, I CONSIDER MEMORY AND ORAL
STORYTELLING AS ARCHIVES, EMBEDDING IN MY WORK REMINDERS OF THE TANGIBILITY OF A
NEW WORLD.

BILLION TEKLEAB (SHE/HER) IS AN ERITREAN-AMERICAN INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTIST
LIVING IN HOUSTON, TEXAS. TEKLEAB’S WORK HAS BEEN PRESENTED WITH CONTEMPORARY
ARTS MUSEUM HOUSTON, NAMELESS SOUND, PROJECT ROW HOUSES,  CONTEMPORARY ARTS
CENTER NEW ORLEANS ANDTHE ANDERSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS HOUSTON. SHE HAS RECENTLY
COMPLETED AN ARTIST RESIDENCY WITH THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS MUSEUM HOUSTON’S
CAMHLAB.








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