Big Bang, Borrowed Rib, Womb

Jeanna Criscitiello premieres her new work Big Bang, Borrowed Rib, Womb following her residency at Woning Van Wassenhove.

The thirty-five minute performance marks a conceptual inversion of Criscitiello's previous performance practice toward an all-woman ensemble featuring Alice Sinephro, Celine Bodson and Grazyna Bienkowski activating cello, violin, piano, electric and synth bass, electronic textures, voice, gesture and text as a collective-singular body. The piece drifts between chamber music and electronic composition.

The work unfolds through imagined conversations between female artists, writers, musicians, and thinkers including Octavia Butler, Donna Haraway, Virginia Woolf, Lee Lozano, Ana Mendieta, Laurie Anderson and Kim Gordon, among others - examining origin through the lens of the female experience, moving between creation myths, feminist and queer theory, folklore, cosmology, and esoteric ritual.