NOW!!! Zen MARIE in conversation with Raimi GBADAMOSI & Raél Jero SALLEY
Check out this event from our partner: The Space for Creative Black Imagination!
BLAXIS_ In / Out of Site & Space - A De/aesthetic Paradise Fallen. ️
Zen MARIE
In conversation with Raimi GBADAMOSI
& Raél Jero SALLEY
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2021 | 2 pm EST / 8 pm SAST
Free Public Zoom Event (Registration Required)
ABOUT_
BLAXIS is born of conversations, experiments, and speculations on the edges. On the edges of what? Well, on the edges of music, art, academia, film, poetry, and imagination.
Blaxis is bringing/ coming/ being together.
This coming together is initiated by Zen Marie, in dialogue with Mpumelelo Mcata, Tumi Mogorosi, and others.
(For this iteration of BLAXIS, others include Raimi Gbadamosi and Raél Salley).
These protagonists have in one way or another been in conversation for some time. The basis for these conversations has revolved around a dissatisfaction with the way things are, specifically the way in which art, music, politics, even ideas are shaped and constrained by industries that ultimately seem to serve the flows of capital and forms of power that prevail.
This critique—perhaps a new form of critique—is not one with content that is restricted to commentary. (*In other words, we actually DO this *ish).
Importantly, the conversations and collaborations take form around proactively experimentation, improvisation, and making. We do not wait for the perfect context but instead insist on action that (performatively) suggests new ways forward.
ABOUT:
The movements of BLAXIS will take the form of a kind of call and response, each session having the shots called by one of the 3 entities (Marie, Mcata, Mogorosi). In this way, 3 discrete, distinct moments will cumulatively develop around the ideas contained in BLAXIS.
THE SPACE FOR CREATIVE BLACK IMAGINATION responds to the challenges of the 21st century by its dedication to the study of culture, race, social justice, and imagination beyond established paradigms, through interdisciplinary, interactive and social projects in visual, design, and media studies.
Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) is a leader in the world of visual arts featuring undergraduate, graduate, and certificate programs.
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