Alum Colin Self’s Performance Reviewed by Artforum

Colin Self (BFA 2010), *Tip the Ivy*, 2022. Performance view, Performance Space New York, 2022. Credit: Maria Baranova. Image courtesy of *Artforum*

Colin Self (BFA 2010), *Tip the Ivy*, 2022. Performance view, Performance Space New York, 2022. Credit: Maria Baranova. Image courtesy of *Artforum*

Alum Colin Self’s (BFA 2010) performance was recently reviewed by Artforum. The performance, Tip the Ivy, is an opera surrounding Polari, the dialect of LGBTQ+ people, sex workers, and entertainers in 19th and early 20th-century England. Tip the Ivy also covers ideas about language as a tool of creation and discovery, language as a connecting medium between people, and language as an instrument of memory and history. “In Self’s art, necessity is always the mother/father/other of invention, and the answer to the latter question is always, Create your own,” writes Artforum. Tip the Ivy ran at Performance Space New York from May 5 to May 7, 2022.