Tarish Pipkins, also known as Jeghetto, presents his newest installation and puppet show SWIM, at the 701 Center for Contemporary Art’s swimming pool. This will be a one night performance with limited capacity on April 10, 2023 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Pipkins has been using found materials to create puppets since the late 90s in Clairton, Pennsylvania. Currently, he is an Artist in Residence at the 701 Center for Contemporary Art. However, he got his start at the BridgeSpotters Collective, where he staged puppet street performances.
Some of Pipkin’s most major puppet projects include the Amazon Echo commercial featuring puppets of Alec Baldwin and Missy Elliot, as well as a Pharell Williams puppet in Elliot’s music video “WTF (Where They From).”
SWIM will be a performance dedicated to exploring the myth of the Dogon and Mer-People, and how these myths currently relate to our present collective history. As the 701 Center for Contemporary Art says, “This performance is a poem of hope and determination that will undulate through the glass floor under which it is performed and crash into the hearts of the audience.”
You can find tickets for the one time, special event at by clicking here.