African American Performance Art Archive

No Place: A Ritual of the Empathics (2009) is a continuation of artist Saya Woolfalk’s investigation into a fictional future called “No Place.”  This narrative includes a group of women called the Empathics, who believe utopian No Place is a future worth inhabiting and attempt to conjure it into the present through performance.

Below are links to photographs of the performance and rehearsals leading up to it.

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