Art Talk | @thestudioaccra Thursday November 24, 2016 7.30 PM Free!!! Body Intimate{d} Journeying onward from her Chale Wote 2016 performance, Y K O Tetteh follows her curiosity to a new set of questions about the intersection between performativity, the (black) (female) body, and our intimate relationship with ourselves. In this piece she brings participants into the performance of body intimacy stories, and asks them to join her in her performance-research. Y K O Tetteh Yvette Y K O Tetteh (b. 1992) is a British-born Ghanaian artist and aspiring farmer. She holds a BA in Cultural Anthropology, and French, from Stanford University (CA, USA.) Her work is centred on the black body, and the intersection of intimacy, reserve, and performativity. Her astrological signs are: Cancer Sun, Aries Moon, and Gemini in Ascendant. This sums her up perfectly. Yvette is based in Accra, Ghana.














