Is:
Still in shock that she won.
Makes:
Performances, installations, photographs, videos.
Flips:
Social norms in performances until you barely recognize them.
The morning after C. Davida Ingram won the 2014 Stranger Genius Award in art, her mother texted her, “MAY GOD REVEAL THE PURPOSE OF YOUR ART.”
No pressure.
Ingram had thanked her “mama and daddy” back in Chicago from the stage moments after she won. She left home a decade ago, in 2003, searching for somewhere she could be more fully herself. She has many identities—queer, feminist, activist, scholar, writer—and home felt limiting…
