Wa Na Wari and Jacob Lawrence Gallery present: Human Design and the Long Con
Saturday, March 13, 2021 at 12 PM PST – 3 PM PST
Join us for a screening of two films by Ilana Harris Babou: The Long Con and Human Design. Following the screening we will have a talk back with Ilana and Kemi Adeyemi, curator and founder of The Black Embodiments Studio.
Please click this URL to join. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81746634834...
Passcode: 446447
About Ilana Harris-Babou
Ilana Harris-Babou’s work is interdisciplinary, spanning sculpture and installation, but grounded in video. She has exhibited throughout the US and Europe, with solo exhibitions at The Museum of Arts & Design, 80WSE and Larrie in New York. Other venues include the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, Abrons Art Center, the Jewish Museum, and SculptureCenter in New York, the De Young Museum in San Francisco, CPH:DOX* in Copenhagen, La Casa Encendida in Madrid and Le Doc in Paris. She has been the recipient of the Fountainhead Fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University, the Jorge M. Perez Award, the Community Engagement Grant from the Rema Hort Mann Foundation, the VanLier Fellowship from the Museum of Arts & Design. Her work has been reviewed in The New Yorker, Art in America, and Artforum, among others. She received an MFA from Columbia University in 2016, and a BA in Art from Yale University
in 2013.
About Kemi Adeyemi
Kemi Adeyemi is Assistant Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies and Director of The Black Embodiments Studio at the University of Washington. Her writing and curatorial projects use performance as a site and methodology for theorizing the contours of contemporary black queer life. She has two books under contract: Feels Right: Black Queer Women's Choreographies of Belonging in the Neoliberal City (Duke University Press) and Queer Nightlife (University of Michigan Press), co-edited with Kareem Khubchandani and Ramón Rivera-Servera. Her most recent writing has appeared in GLQ, Women & Performance, and the in Routledge Handbook of African American Art History. Adeyemi's work extends into the realm of contemporary art practice. She works as choreographer Will Rawls’ dramaturge, and has written on and for artists including Tschabalala Self, Jovencio de la Paz, Indira Allegra, Brendan Fernandes, and taisha paggett. She curated Amina Ross’ 2019 solo show at Ditch Projects, and co-curated Unstable Objects in 2017 at the Alice Gallery. As Director of The Black Embodiments Studio, Adeyemi runs an arts writing incubator and curates a public lecture series dedicated to developing discourse around contemporary black art and artists.
Saturday, March 13, 2021 at 12 PM PST – 3 PM PST
Join us for a screening of two films by Ilana Harris Babou: The Long Con and Human Design. Following the screening we will have a talk back with Ilana and Kemi Adeyemi, curator and founder of The Black Embodiments Studio.
Please click this URL to join. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81746634834...
Passcode: 446447
About Ilana Harris-Babou
Ilana Harris-Babou’s work is interdisciplinary, spanning sculpture and installation, but grounded in video. She has exhibited throughout the US and Europe, with solo exhibitions at The Museum of Arts & Design, 80WSE and Larrie in New York. Other venues include the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, Abrons Art Center, the Jewish Museum, and SculptureCenter in New York, the De Young Museum in San Francisco, CPH:DOX* in Copenhagen, La Casa Encendida in Madrid and Le Doc in Paris. She has been the recipient of the Fountainhead Fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University, the Jorge M. Perez Award, the Community Engagement Grant from the Rema Hort Mann Foundation, the VanLier Fellowship from the Museum of Arts & Design. Her work has been reviewed in The New Yorker, Art in America, and Artforum, among others. She received an MFA from Columbia University in 2016, and a BA in Art from Yale University
in 2013.
About Kemi Adeyemi
Kemi Adeyemi is Assistant Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies and Director of The Black Embodiments Studio at the University of Washington. Her writing and curatorial projects use performance as a site and methodology for theorizing the contours of contemporary black queer life. She has two books under contract: Feels Right: Black Queer Women's Choreographies of Belonging in the Neoliberal City (Duke University Press) and Queer Nightlife (University of Michigan Press), co-edited with Kareem Khubchandani and Ramón Rivera-Servera. Her most recent writing has appeared in GLQ, Women & Performance, and the in Routledge Handbook of African American Art History. Adeyemi's work extends into the realm of contemporary art practice. She works as choreographer Will Rawls’ dramaturge, and has written on and for artists including Tschabalala Self, Jovencio de la Paz, Indira Allegra, Brendan Fernandes, and taisha paggett. She curated Amina Ross’ 2019 solo show at Ditch Projects, and co-curated Unstable Objects in 2017 at the Alice Gallery. As Director of The Black Embodiments Studio, Adeyemi runs an arts writing incubator and curates a public lecture series dedicated to developing discourse around contemporary black art and artists.