Get Your 10s is a forthcoming feature-length documentary film that invites viewers into the process of interdisciplinary artist Rashaad Newsome. As an artist who works not only with inanimate objects but with people, we see how systems of oppression take shape in the lives of him and his performers and how they use creativity and collaboration to traverse these obstacles.
The film follows Rashaad as he embarks on Assembly, the most ambitious project of his career: a multimedia exhibition and performance at New York City’s Park Avenue Armory. By uniting a global cast of dancers and musicians, Rashaad hopes to affirm vogue’s transcendent force in the contemporary art world. At the show’s center is his AI progeny, “Being,” who takes the form of a 30-foot-tall Afro-futurist cyborg. Being functions as artwork and comrade in helping Newsome’s audience understand the theories behind his work and how to use them to transform their lives.
From iconic members of vogue culture who’ve helped define it over the decades to emerging performers from Japan, Ukraine, Brazil, and Senegal, the dynamic cast offers a window into an underground dance form that has transcended gender and sexuality as it has energized people worldwide. As they unite through their art, they also reveal personal stories of the discrimination and abuse they’ve overcome. The film illustrates how art can help us transform the world into a more inclusive and equitable space and that Queerness and Blackness are not just words but wildly imaginative worlds that can produce new universes.
For more info on this film and its release, please contact Rashaad Newsome Studio.