Torkwase Dyson, Beloved Stillness (Hypeshape), 2022. © Torkwase Dyson, courtesy Liverpool Biennial. Photo by RJS 2024. LINK
The Space for Creative Black Imagination is vital to enhancing the vibrancy and insisting on wholeness in our shared cultural, human, and visual lives.
EXHIBITION: “LOOKING RIGHTS”
Video Installations by Filmmaker Kurt Orderson.
On view June 13 - June 27, 2024.
In collaboration with_
Johns Hopkins University’s Department of Political Science & the Right to the City Collective (Lester Spence, Robbie Shilliam, Steph Saxton), and NomuNomu Space, Baltimore, USA.
Gathering: Well Just Us_ Weekend Residency in Partnership with TLRAR
e-flux Issue #141, December 2023: Which Citational Practices?
Citational practices have come under review in several recent settings. In 2020, Annabel L. Kim edited an issue of Diacritics called “The Politics of Citation.”1 Curator Legacy Russel delivered her lecture “On Footnotes” in 2021.2 In Parse Journal’s 2023 issue “Citation,” editors Kathryn Klasto and Marie-Louise Richards facilitated a discussion that went beyond the binary of citing and plagiarizing: they deployed various artistic and cultural practices to examine the motivations behind and implications of citational decisions. Beyond the academicism of citational mobility, recent efforts have been made to think through citation within the context of exhibitions, such as in scholar Lucy Steeds’s writing on “restaging historical exhibitions”(…) Read the full article by Nkule Mabaso and Serubiri Moses:
‘Natural Dye Initiative’ (NDI) X The Space
West Baltimore’s Upton Community gathered to welcome regional officers of Truist Bank to celebrate a critical investment in what is known as the Natural Dye Initiative (NDI). The $300,000 grant is in support of the purchase, renovation of a building owned by the Upton Planning Committee, Inc as well as the adjacent fields on formally vacant lots where indigo plants are farmed for processing and subsequent sale for a wide range of commercial and artistic uses.
ApeTown X The Space Fundraising Strategy
SYNOPSIS
Arthur ‘Slewboy’ Claasen is a talented, impulsive graffiti artist at the top of his game. By night, he and his crew - THE WRITERS BLOC - are staking out their claim, bombing the city with rebellious art despite Cape Town officials using specialized units to fight graffiti. When ambitious City Councilman Rodney Abrahams takes the helm of a new project to restore colonial statues in the city centre, the crew brushes it off with characteristic nonchalance. Because by day, Slewboy's hustling and basking in the acclaim and respect from the underground Hip Hop scene. But at home, in the ghetto, on the periphery of the city, he’s Arthur Claasen, an unemployed errant son to his factory worker mother and older sister Nikki. Still, he dreams of making it big and taking his family out of the hood to the other side of Table Mountain, the geographic barrier that separates the rich from the poor. That all changes when after a violent encounter with private security, Slewboy is swept into a psychological dimension parallel, ApeTown, the zoo-inspired world he creates through his art. ApeTown is an urban adventure film that seamlessly blends coming-of-age themes with elements of magical realism.
From our Partners:
“States of Becoming” Exhibition Curated by Fitsum Shebeshe. At UMBC Center for Art, Design, Visual Culture (Sept 2023).
Partnerships:
Creative Seedlings_ Dialogues on BLERD Culture
The Phillips Collection (Washington D.C.), BLERDCON, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, & The Space for Creative Black Imagination
From Our Partners:
Dr. Romi Crawford &
the New Art School Modality (July 2023)
The Juneteenth Institute (2023)
Partnership Project: Howard University Art + The Liverpool Biennial
'Architectures of the South: Bruising, Wounding, Healing, Remembering, Returning, and Repairing'
Issue IV of the Ellipses Journal of Creative Research.
Edited by Huda Tayob and Catalina Meija Moreno @catalina.mejia.9484
Making Art History Now: Episode 1
Making Art History Now: Episode 2
Making Art History Now: Episode 3
From Tina Campt 2022
Making Art History Now: Episode 4 (Coming Soon!)
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It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
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It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
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It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
April 22 2022 / 09h00-17h00
Join us for “Making Art History Now”
Presented by the Space for Creative Black Imagination, MICA, and Yale University History of Art & School of Art, “Making Art History Now” is a program designed to respond to the art-historical, critical, decolonial, theoretical, and practical challenges we face in the early 21st Century.
Makers and historians must adapt to address our shared and overlapping crises, shifting cultural discourses, mediated communicative modes, demands for decolonization, and troubled organic environments. The point of this collaborative effort is to advance new ways of responding with care.
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