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Dates: 2.3.22
Gallery hours: 1:0ds.
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In collaboration with ONX and NEW INC, black beyond presentskkkm, ,m avant-garde and new media sound artist Lamb. Our featured artist will unfold various dimensions of sound, impro visation, movement, and narrative-building.
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To preface an XR performance, artist and writer Dani Brito will join Lamb in conversation to expand on their creative process, communal resistance, and sources of inspiration at ONX Studios in New York City on February 3, 2022 from 6:30 PM - 8:15 PM. This in-person event is an extension of black beyond’s exhibition _assembly, alchemy, ascension in the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery at The New School. The event black beyond _a^3 alchemy portal is free and open to the public to join, [register here].
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To help support the work of black beyond, please consider donating to the platform. By doing so, black beyond can fund future programming and exhibitions for its ecosystem
Please join us for black beyond’s debut IRL group exhibition, curated by JAZSALYN, Shameekia Shantel Johnson, and Yvonne Mpwo. Through new media, sculpture, performance, and conceptual art, the exhibition seeks to convene and alchemize a new being of blackness through the assembly of art as community practice and community activations.
a^3 = b^2
assembly, alchemy, ascension is to black beyond
The opening of Black Aliveness, or a Poetics of Being by Kevin Everod Quashie references an, “equation of blackness and death [as] indisputable and enduring, … but if we want to try to conceptualize aliveness, we have to begin somewhere else.”
Yet. This is not the end. Death and apocalypse generates a portal. An opening to new beginnings. A transcendental rebirth.
black beyond levitates black metatheories such as (afro) pessimism, nowism, afro vs afrifuturism, black womanism and beyond.
It is an attempt to map and puncture points of pressure thus subverting and unraveling a false, destructive reality. To escape and transmit outside and beyond the white racist imaginary. Beyond the present state of being confined in blackness. Beyond blackness as a technology of oppression and division.
This is not the end.
black beyond is unbounded. It is left open and undone. It seeks to convene and alchemize a new being of blackness through the assembly of art as community practice and community activations.
a^3 serves as a critical analysis of black metatheories and how they relate to each as a continuum of thought and practice. Rather than a question of can such metatheories coexist? Yet more so, how do they contradict, intersect and exist in a multidimensional state parallel to each other to; pushing us further outside and beyond?
This is not a drill. nor an equation, or a curatorial statement. This is a call to action!
a^3 asks,
what does the black beyond mean to you?
For more info on black beyond please visit:
Curatorial concept and statement authored by JAZSALYN and neta bomani, and edited by Shameekia Shantel Johnson and Yvonne Mpwo.
black beyond _assembly, alchemy, ascension [a^3] is made possible by the New York Foundation for the Arts, Design + Technology Program at Parsons School of Design, and The New School USS. Public programming supported by The New School EISJ, Parsons Executive Dean’s Office, NEW INC at The New Museum, ONX Studios, and NOWADAYS.
After event registration, external guests will be directed to a confirmation page and receive a registration confirmation email detailing the health and safety guidelines. Each individual must sign up for a reservation time. If you are coming with other guests, make sure each person signs up for the same time. This will ensure that we do not exceed the room capacity. Anyone without a reservation in their name will not be allowed access into the gallery.
Upon checking in for their event and in accordance with NYC access rules:
- All visitors are required to present proof of vaccination (e.g., CDC card - hard copy or picture, Excelsior Pass) - with a vaccine authorized by the US FDA or for emergency use by WHO - and a negative result from either a PCR test taken within the previous 7 days OR a rapid antigen test taken the same day.
- All external guests will be required to attest that they are currently experiencing no symptoms and are not actively in quarantine or isolation due to a positive test result, exposure, or recent travel.
- All external guests must wear a mask for the duration of their visit, in all University buildings and indoor spaces.
Thank you for understanding our safety process!
Date: 2.3.22
Time: 6:30 p.m.
In collaboration with ONX and NEW INC, black beyond presents avant-garde and new media sound artist Lamb. Our featured artist will unfold various dimensions of sound, improvisation, movement, and narrative-building.
To preface an XR performance, artist and writer Dani Brito will join Lamb in conversation to expand on their creative process, communal resistance, and sources of inspiration at ONX Studios in New York City on February 3, 2022 from 6:30 PM - 8:15 PM.
This in-person event is an extension of black beyond’s exhibition _assembly, alchemy, ascension in the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery at The New School. The event black beyond _a^3 alchemy portal is free and open to the public to join.
Following the _a^3 alchemy portal artist talk and XR performance at ONX, guests are welcome to join black beyond in an after party starting at 11 PM at NOWADAYS with DJ sets by performing sound artists SCRAAATCH, La Duni, Lamb, saliYah and cry$cross. black beyond _a^3 ascension portal is a ticketed event. To RSVP, [ register here].
Ticket proceeds support black beyond artists, future programming and exhibitions for its ecosystem.
To help support the work of black beyond, please consider donating to the platform. By doing so, black beyond can fund future programming and exhibitions for its ecosystem.
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