BLACK AND BROWN BIENNALE: SOIL TONGUE: A SOUTHERN LANGUAGE
August 18 - September 15,2021
To view this exhibition online, go here. From the organizers: "BLACK AND BROWN BIENNALE PRESENTS A VIRTUAL EXHIBITION, CURATED BY RYAN (RAVEN) CRANE AND SLANT RHYME WHICH URGES US TO DEEPEN AND WEAVE TOGETHER OUR ANALYSIS OF SOUTHERN ALTERITY: REFLECT UPON OUR WRITTEN AND ORAL HISTORIES, OUR BODIES, AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO THE LITTORAL THREADS BETWEEN SOUTHERN LAND (NATURE) AND THE STEWARDS THAT OCCUPY THEM. PLEASE JOIN US IN CRITICALLY AND CAREFULLY ENGAGING WITH DIASPORIC HISTORIES AND SOUTHERN MOVEMENTS OF SOLIDARITY AND REFLECTING ON THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR OUR TIME WITH THIS VIRTUAL EXHIBITION. VISIT THE BLACK BROWN BIENNALE WEBSITE TO FOLLOW THE WORK OF SLANT AND RYAN. Meet your curators: Black TM Black ™ is a curatorial/ performance-based collaboration (Slant Rhyme and Raven Crane). Their performance work consists of essays, conversations, and archival investigations that seek to explore the paradoxes, limitations, and social ramifications of black and trans representation within contemporary culture, and contradictions of capitalism and its deleterious effects on bodies, movement, time, and land. Blackness as a form of intellectual property. This project is made possible with support from The Idea Fund. The Idea Fund is a re-granting program administered by DiverseWorks, Aurora Picture Show, and Project Row Houses and funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Trans Justice Funding Project."
