Fact Magazine launches its new issue featuring a 24-page spread of newly commissioned work by Rashaad Newsome, featuring texts from Ruha Benjamin, Patrik-Ian Polk, Dazie Grego Sykes, Darnell L. Moore, Alok Vaid-Menon, Legacy Russell, Antwaun Sargent, Black Quantum Futurism, Ekow Eshun and James Baldwin.

Fact’s Fall/Winter ’22 issue features a 24-page spread of newly commissioned work by Rashaad Newsome consisting of images of new collages, sculpture, photography, and CGI. Collectively the images touch on long-standing themes in Newsome’s work, such as the importance of community for Black Queer folks, the relationship between Blacks and abstraction, and Black people and technology(past, present, and speculative future). To support him in this endeavor, Newsome sent his work to friends and colleagues and asked them to respond with a quote, text, or poem, resulting in a collection of innovative images and thoughtful writings.

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A Public Skin at Josh Lilley Gallery London, 1 September – 1 October 2022

A Public Skin

Rashaad Newsome, Joan Nelson, Bassam Al‑Sabah, Alex Olson & Alteronce Gumby

1 September – 1 October 2022

Andy Warhol’s infamous 1966 claim that anyone seeking traces of authorship in his work need only look at the surface of his paintings, sculptures, and films – “there I am. There’s nothing behind it” – is only really infamous if you think of surfaces as superficial, or of superficiality as something not worth thinking about. Superficiality is only skin deep anyway: any painting is two surfaces touching, like hands in prayer, a hidden support, and a visible outer skin. Applying the latter to the former is a matter of masking or concealment, with all the suggestive potential that brings to mind. It’s in the gap between the two that the approaches of the artists on show here come to life. The aim is not to disentangle them but to see one in terms of the other, to hold the private support and the public surface in productive tension. Painting, here, is the guiding metaphor, despite the range of media on show: its interplay of skins is the territory we’re in.

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Rashaad Newsome wins the 2022 Berkeley FILM Foundation grant.

Rashaad Newsome wins the 2022 Berkeley FILM Foundation grant for his forthcoming feature link documentary, Get Your 10s.

The Berkeley FILM Foundation is a 501(c)(3) grant and educational program for independent filmmakers founded by the City of Berkeley, Wareham Development, and the Saul Zaentz Company with a mission to nurture, sustain and preserve the thriving local film community while attracting the next generation of filmmakers.

Through the artistic process of interdisciplinary artist Rashaad Newsome, Get Your 10s tells the story of how the creative and cultural productions of Black and Latinx Americans who live on the margins of society traveled across national borders. Newsome’s materials are people rather than inanimate objects, and the film follows him as he collaborates with Queer practitioners from Brazil, Japan, Ukraine, and Senegal who combine vogue with their local dance forms, culminating in a monumental performance at the Park Avenue Armory in NYC. In tandem, we see the creation of Rashaad’s artificial intelligence creation, Being, who teaches decolonization workshops combining vogue, meditation, and critical pedagogy. The film investigates how historically, Black people have functioned as technology and examines how technology can serve as a form of resistance and liberation and a threat to our civil rights. As we travel through the multifaceted artistic practice of Rashaad, we discover how art, ballroom culture, and critical thinking can unleash our collective imaginations to envision a future that holds promise for all of us.

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