lecture performa first series ended last week ! thank you to all the artists, their electric lecture-performances & conversations in and around practice, theory and play 🤘🏾
big love to @cassandra_press & @kandis_williams x @feministcenterforcreativework for giving a home to this pedagogical series, all of you who signed up & tuned in throughout the series, the ASL interpreters Murry and Shelley & big big love to @g_g_g_g_g_g who I’m grateful for holding it down as an incredible TA for the 9 weeks
Artists:
Eric N. Mack
Dominique White
Dachi Cole
Abbas Zahedi
Nikita Gale
Kobby Adi
S*an D. Henry Smith
Rhea Dillon
Human Rights Watch and Israel’s B’Tselem this year confirmed what Palestinians, South Africans, international legal scholars and dissenting Israeli voices have long said: Israel operates an apartheid regime against the Indigenous Palestinian people and should be held accountable under international law. As with South Africa, global solidarity will help this come to pass.
We condemn white supremacy, anti-Black racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia and all forms of discrimination and racism. For the same reason, we will not exhibit in support of apartheid. Because decolonizing is a practice, we will not allow the artwashing of injustice with our work and the legitimization of apartheid through culture.
We support the principled call from Palestinian artists to refuse to exhibit with or sell to Israeli and international arts institutions that are complicit in Israel's human rights abuses. As long as Israel maintains its apartheid regime, we refuse to artwash its brutal oppression against Palestinians #visualartsforpalestine
The final week of this season of Lecture Performa is by S*an D. Henry-Smith titled ‘Ibid.’
Fri 21st May
6pm BST / 1PM EST / 10am PST live on @feministcenterforcreativework Zoom with a Q&A by @rheadillon
S*an D. Henry-Smith ( @lil_sunchoke ) works primarily in poetry, photography, and performance, engaging Black experimentalisms and collaborative practices. They have read, performed, and exhibited at White Columns, Basilica SoundScape, ISSUE Project Room, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and more. They have earned awards and fellowships from the Fulbright Program, The Poetry Project, and Poets House. As mouthfeel, they coauthored Consider the Tongue with Imani Elizabeth Jackson. Henry-Smith has published two chapbooks and Wild Peach, their debut collection of poems and photographs, was shortlisted for the 2021 PEN Open Book Award.
pictured artwork:
engraved, 2020
archival inkjet print, unique.
#lectureperforma #seandhenrysmith
This week’s LP is by Dominique White titled ‘Hydrarchy from Below’
Fri 14th May
6pm BST / 1PM EST / 10am PST live on @feministcenterforcreativework Zoom with a Q&A by @rheadillon
Dominique White ( @dominiquehwhite ) has upcoming solo presentations at UKS (NO), VEDA (IT) and Bloc (UK) in 2021. Recent and upcoming group exhibitions include Ubuntu, a Lucid Dream at Palais de Tokyo (FR) (2021-2022); Possédé·e·s at Montpellier Contemporain (FR) (2020-2021); Mere Skyn at CAPC (FR) (2020-2021).
White has received awards from Artangel (UK) and the Henry Moore Foundation (UK) in 2020. White was a resident at Sagrada Mercancía (CL) and Triangle France (FR) in 2020/1. She is currently in residence at La Becque (CH) until summer 2021. Dominique White currently lives and works in Marseille (FR).
pictured artwork:
Ruttier for the Absent, 2019
Null sail, sisal, kaolin clay, worn rope, destroyed palm, iron, raffia, residue from the Mediterranean
Photo credit: Jacopo Menzani
#lectureperforma #dominiquewhite
This week’s LP is by Kobby Adi titled ‘00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0’
Fri 7th May
6pm BST / 1PM EST / 10am PST live on @feministcenterforcreativework Zoom with a Q&A by @rheadillon
Kobby Adi ( @k88888888y ) lives and works.
pictured artwork:
Trojan (held), 2019
Stainless steel barbeque, UV print on tinted glass, hidden objects.
Photo credit: Tim Bowditch
#lectureperforma #kobbyadi
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