​​​sweat variant, the collaborative practice of ​​Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born​,​ ​​has made collaborative genre-defying performances since 1996. Integrating dance, theater, writing, and the visual arts, their work demonstrates great formal and sonic experimentation and explores themes of inheritance, Black interiority, and the power of ritual. For the ICA/Boston, Okpokwasili and Born present a new moving image installation centered on the themes of transmission and absence, embodied inheritance, and the residue of grief also explored in acclaimed recent performances let slip, hold sway, and the adaku trilogy. Periodic in-gallery performance practices invite audiences into what the duo has called a “spectacle of radical intimacy,” and in so doing, bear witness, test the limits of attention, and sit in relation, memory, and reflection.