Minnesota Street Project Foundation is excited to announce the first five grantees of the California Black Voices Project. Each grantee receives $10,000 and space at the 1275 Minnesota Street Project Galleries to feature their newly developed works in 2021. Works will also be presented on Adjacent, Minnesota Street Project’s virtual space for art.
Meet the Phase 2 Fellows
The artists and collectives include Rashaad Newsome, Aladin Borioli, Valencia James, Juan Pablo García Sossa, Dillon Sung, Xin Xin, and the collectives Solar Protocol and Veil Machine. In July, Eyebeam awarded 30 artists hailing from nearly every continent with fellowships and grants of $5,000; the second phase artists will receive an additional $25,000 to take their proposals to action immediately.
During his residency, Newsome will work on the third generation of his Artificial Intelligence project, Being 2.0. This iteration will act as emancipation from 1.0’s role as an exhibition tour guide and 1.5 roles as a virtual therapist. 2.0 will reimagine non-Eurocentric archives and education models like the griot, a West African cultural figure that functions as a historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet, musician, and healer. As a digital griot, Being’s purpose is to teach us how to radically decolonize through a series of workshops that combine lecture, movement, storytelling, narrative exposure therapy, and meditation.
September 9–October 11 Schedule:
Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays | September 9, 10, 13, 16, 17, 20, 23, 24, 27, and 30 | October 1, 4, 7, 8, and 11
Fridays and Saturdays (program screens twice each evening) | September 11, 12, 18, 19, 25, and 26 | October 2, 3, 9, and 10
View a PDF with more information about the videos on view September 9–October 11.
23 – 26 SEPTEMBER 2020
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Jenkins Johnson features works reflecting international political and social issues of 2020 through the work of five African Diaspora artists: Rashaad Newsome, Lisa Corinne Davis, Blessing Ngobeni, Amani Lewis, and Raelis Vasquez. In line with the words of Martin Luther King Jr., “When you see something that is not right, you must stand up, speak up and speak out.”‘
Debuting at OVR:2020 is Rashaad Newsome’s neo-cubist collages, which are components of his new multi-disciplinary “Assembly” series. He draws on advertisements, the Internet, and black and queer culture to produce complex narratives on intersectionality and social practice. He has upcoming projects at Stanford University and Oakland Museum. He has exhibited in the Whitney Biennial. He is in collections, including the Whitney Museum, LACMA, SFMoMA, and Brooklyn Museum.’
Streaming on the sfmoma.org homepage, for free, is a weekly rotating selection of SFMOMA video and performance commissions from the past decade.
Majeure Force marks Night Gallery’s first decade in Los Angeles and acts as a dilogy, anniversary exhibition that brings together a diverse roster of artists. The exhibition celebrates how in the first ten years, the gallery has grown from an artist-run storefront space to a premiere institution for contemporary art’s most exciting voices. Beyond showcasing the brilliance of the artists, it also pays tribute to the community that has grown around the gallery and continuously supported it, making Night Gallery a locus of imaginative exchange.
Opening reception: August 7, 6 pm, via Zoom
Performance by Amelia Bande, El Estallido / The Outbreak, 6:30 pm, via Zoom
Through video, installation, sculpture, poetry, performance, and archival documentation, the works in After La vida nueva explore constructions of self and nation by sifting through the unstable terrain of the past. Drawing on histories and archives of feminist, queer, and Third World liberation movements and responding to the uneven forces of neoliberalization, the artists suggest the pursuit of a new life that is concomitant with new ways of being together.
The exhibition features works by Amelia Bande, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0/b.a.n.g. lab, Renée Green, Rummana Hussain, Caroline Key, Alan Michelson, Rashaad Newsome, Catalina Parra, Cici Wu, and Raúl Zurita.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, After La vida nueva consists of an expanded catalogue, available for download, and an online component, hosted by Artists Space, where a weekly series of “spotlights” of different works in the exhibition will include screenings, archival documents, images, and text:
August 8 – 15: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Renée Green, Caroline Key, and Cici Wu
August 16 – 23: Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0/b.a.n.g. lab, Alan Michelson, Rashaad Newsome, and Catalina Parra
August 24 – 31: Amelia Bande, Rummana Hussain, Third World Gay Revolution and Juan Queiroz, and Raúl Zurita
On July 10th at 8 pm, EDT/5 pm PDT on The Shed NY’s YouTube channel, an international cohort of incredibly talented black and brown queer people will descend upon my virtual ballroom floor to share their skills. Join me Being Gorgeous Jack Mizrahi Gucci, DJ MikeQ, Kevin JZ Prodigy, and the judges’ panel consisting of Arthur Jafa, Kenya Hunt, Kiddy Smile, Mother Eyricka Lanvin, Leggoh JohVera, Niambi E. Stanley, Darnell Moore, Hope Giselle, and Alok Vaid-Menon as we deliberate over who are the next leaders in the global ballroom scene. After the ball join us on Instagram Live at (@rashaadnewsome) for a dance party with DJ April Hunt and DJ MikeQ.
