What can I do? What should I do? What will I do?
Annabel Daou
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
12:30 - 1:30pm
outside Grace Memorial Chapel
at Wichita State University
as part of her solo exhibition DECLARATION
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas
January 27 - May 7, 2022
What can I do? What should I do? What will I do? is a participatory performance by Annabel Daou that invites the public to create a collaborative manifesto for our current moment. Answers will reflect personal, political or social themes with no restriction on topics addressed. To participate, please fill in the form below; submissions may be anonymous. The resulting responses will be read aloud by Daou on Wednesday, April 6th outside of Grace Memorial Chapel at Wichita State University.
Presented by the Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University, What can I do? What should I do? What will I do? was developed as part of the programming surrounding Daou's concurrent solo exhibition DECLARATION inside Grace Memorial Chapel. The Ulrich acquired the titular sound work for its permanent collection in 2021 and has partnered with the Rhatigan Student Center to present it as an immersive installation in the Chapel, an ecumenical, contemplative space located in the heart of the campus. The Ulrich envisions the experience as an invitation to all visitors, and especially to the many young people who traverse the WSU campus, to consider their own power, the possibilities of social action and the impact their actions have on the world around them.
annabel daou’s work takes place at the intersection of writing, speech and non-verbal modes of communication. Her paper-based constructions, audio/video works and performances explore the expressive possibilities of ordinary language, and reveal intimacies between individual and collective experience. Frequently, her works evoke moments of rupture, chaos, instability and misunderstanding but always with the tenuous possibility of repair. Daou was born and raised in Beirut and lives in New York. Daou’s work has been shown at The National Museum of Beirut; The Park Avenue Armory, New York; KW, Berlin; The Drawing Room, London; and The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. Public collections include Baltimore Museum of Art; The Menil Collection, Houston; The Brooklyn Museum of Art; The Vehbi Koç Foundation, Istanbul; and The Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven.