Black Spatial Relics Convening 2021: Artist Talk

Black Spatial Relics

Join our artist talk with 2020 Artists-in-Residence for a conversation -  moderated by director Arielle Julia Brown. 

Now as much as ever, radical gathering spaces for rumination on Black embodied freedoms are crucial. From February 23 - 27, 2021, Black Spatial Relics (BSR) is hosting its second annual convening. Building on our work to create Black spaces for creation, exploration, and community, this will be a free and virtual convening that will feature our 2020 artists-in-residence and several other Black performance makers and scholars from around Philadelphia and beyond.This artist talk features 2020 Artists-in-Residence Misty Sol (Philadelphia, PA), Danielle Deadwyler (Atlanta, GA), Ada Pinkston (Baltimore, MD), and Crystal Z Campbell (Tulsa, OK), moderated by Arielle Julia Brown. About the Artists-in-Residence: <ul><li>Misty Sol is the creator of “Other Ways of Knowing…”.”Other Ways of Knowing” is an ancestral exploration through ritual, performance, and sensory history. Using a quote from Toni Morrison’s essay, ‘Rootedness: The Ancestors as Foundation”, Misty Sol will work with one hundred storytellers to tell five-minute stories and create a digital altar space as a response to it. In documenting this ancestral knowledge through care and conversation, this collection will identify, contextualize, and validate Black people’s world views as they occur in the past, present, and as empowerment and magic for the future. This will culminate in a meditative multisensory and multimedia digital performance. </li><li>Danielle Deadwyler is the creator of “Untitled”, or ”Rules for (Un)Sticking (False) Futures”. Deadwyler’s work will be a performance of movement, film, and sound. A hyper-space of reclamation, this work aligns Black past, present, and future, with its chosen mediums acting as the temporal characters to charge a wild, refined happening. This work explores race and gender, fusing imagery of practices of Black women’s labor (domestic, sexual, emotional) with archived imagery, from Civil War Era United States to contemporary womanhood and futures. Deadwyler will also reflect on her history and that of Atlanta, alongside contemporary concerns and activism happening there. The artist hopes to partner with her alma mater Spelman College to develop the work with its performance/theatre department.</li><li>Ada Pinkston is the creator of No Named Tongues. No Named Tongues is a mixed-media performance artwork that is the next iteration of LandMarked, a multiplatform art project that is about exploring the architectural objects that we call monuments. Pinkston will produce a new body of work that examines the ways that language and culture have shape-shifted into multiple forms in the Americas as a result of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. This performance and video work will consider what it means to create a hybrid dialect in the context of survival. She will use the Hampton National Historic site as a point of departure for this performance. Hand-painted textile, collaboratively produced with students from Baltimore County Public Schools will be an integral part of the site-specific set/installation design.</li><li>Crystal Z Campbell is the creator of “SLICK”. “SLICK” is a series of live performances, workshops, and a publication with fictionalized and historical narratives around Tulsa’s former Black Wall Street Community (Greenwood), the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, and the story of oil. Performance sites and gestures will be directly related to Tulsa’s history of continual displacement and land grabs, extraction, environmental racism, and food deserts. Three performances and workshops will consider sound, gesture, site, and collective memory, to shift our relationship to the way we see our city as well as how we can change our perceptions of history. In workshops and rehearsal, she will expand on suggestions made by Augusto Boal in Theater of the Oppressed, to further develop these performances which will engage the Black community and questions of social justice. </li></ul>Project support provided by Added Velocity which is administered by Temple Contemporary at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University and funded by the William Penn Foundation. Black Spatial Relics is a national residency program, founded and directed by Arielle Julia Brown. The Black Spatial Relics Residency is made possible with support from the JKW Foundation, Black Seed, Velocity Fund, W. Trust, Monument Lab, and independent donors. Black Spatial Relics is a fiscally sponsored project of both Fractured Atlas and Notch Theatre Company. For more information about the 2020 artists in residence, their work, past artists in residence, and the 2021 convening, visit www.blackspatialrelics.org.

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