Event
#BlackGirlLit: Between Literature, Performance & Memory
21 May 2016
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 13:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 558 Saint Johns Place
- New York
New York - 11238
- United States
An evening of performance art that brings together the work of Boston-based artist Dell M. Hamilton, Ayana Evans (New York/Chicago), Tsedaye Makonnen (Washington, D.C.), Marcelline Mandeng (Baltimore/Philadelphia), Helina Metaferia (San Francisco), and Bryana Siobhan & Kal Gezahegn (Boston).
About
Riffing off the hashtag anthem #BlackGirlMagic coined by fashion designer & blogger Auntie Peebz and the double meaning of the term “lit” - (short-hand for ‘literature’ or ‘to turn up’), Hamilton has organized this performance art program to feature work that pivots off of the written and oral traditions of black feminist/womanist frameworks. As such their artistic practices as well as collective cis/trans/queer subjectivities grapple with and against representations of language, blackness, gender, and performativity to connect the echoes from the past to new narratives of the present.