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Négritude Dialogues

Created by Thomas C. Spear (See other events)
  • Jul 21, 2009 from 3:00pm to 5:00pm
  • Location: Exit Art Gallery
  • Latest Activity: Aug 21, 2019

TUESDAY, JULY 217 – 9pm$5 Suggested Donation. Cash bar.Négritude DialoguesIn these intimate, public conversations, participants in the exhibition Négritude will talk with an artist, scholar or cultural producer of their choice about various aspects of the Négritude movement and Black identity. These in-depth conversations will contextualize the exhibition within larger discussions about the politics and culture of Blackness, from the Americas and the Caribbean to Africa.7pm:A Conversation with Négritude artists Vladimir Cybil Charlier Juste and André JusteModerated by Thomas C. Spear, French and Francophone scholar and Professor of French at Lehman College (CUNY) and at the Graduate Center (CUNY).Vladimir Cybil Charlier Juste and André Juste have exhibited internationally, including in the 2007 Venice Biennial (Italy); the 2004 Cuenca Biennial (Ecuador); at the Museo de Arte Moderno (Puerto Rico); the Jersey City Museum (New Jersey); and the Studio Museum in Harlem (New York).8pm:Racial Spacial Facial Glacial: A Group Lecture on the Architectonics and Antipsychotics of 4th-Stage Négritude and other Dub StrategiesA conversation with ('VËRSION'), the newly formed collective of Xaviera Simmons, Arthur Jafa, and Greg Tate.Greg Tate, a cultural critic, journalist and author, has written extensively on racial identity in America and contemporary African-American culture. As co-curator of Négritude, he presented a three-room “Black Mystery Anti-Panopticon,” envisioning Négritude as a “place” for mystery, funk, music and soul. A DJ shrine, created by Tate and the artists Xaviera Simmons and Arthur Jafa, provides a site for performances within the exhibition.
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