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Friday, June 16, 2017

'Some Other Ship' @ De Construkt [NYC/USA]

An art experience brought to you by black folks, featuring black folks, celebrating black folks. Celebrate Juneteenth (a couple days early) with us.]

SOME OTHER SHIP
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*S.O.S*
This is a 'stress call!
*S.O.S.*
I repeat ; this is a stress call!
*S.O.S.*
Y'all I NEED to stress this!
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*S.O.S!* Call your grandmother!
*S.O.S!* Call your mother!
*S.O.S!* Call your brother!
*S.O.S!* Call your lover!
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There's something happening & y'all are captaining!
Peep the tide, ride the wave and help us hold down the helm!
Y'all, we're not wrecked, stranded or wretched anymore; this is
SOME OTHER SHIP and we know how to navigate it!
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So thank your heroes & leave your enemies stranded & abandon:
(S.O.S.)
We have no time for B.S. on deck!
This is SOME OTHER SHIP!
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So scream! Land ahead!
Scream to a New World!
To our Holy-day!
Our Hanukkah; Our independence!
Our FUCK A 40 acres; I'm TAKIN' 400!
*1 FOR EACH YEAR*
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All praises due to our masses, our captains, our northern stars and life savers!
*(S.O.S.)* - y'all always been on some other ship
So crew; set your fiscal sails in motion, steer that flesh machine and check your spiritual compass!
Get ready & come sail away with us on...
S.OME O.THER S.HIP!
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Offerings from:

Elise Dorsey
GypjaQ
Justin Allen
Kara Young
EZRAKH
Temi Olutunmbi
Chazz Giovanni*
Yucking Awesome
Valentin Lamar
BRGZR
Ken Doll
Eric Wonder
Myles Loftin
K La Soul
Grant Strudwick
Cor Ece

Suggested donation at the door. BYOB + Cash Bar. Rooftop Access. RESPECT the space.

F train @ Smith St./9th Avenue (message us if you need any directions)

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Friday, June 2, 2017

'Sunrise', 2011 by Takurou Shirai

[oil on canvas; 28.43 x 35.83 inches]

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Sunday, May 28, 2017

Motoko Ishibashi

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Friday, May 26, 2017

An-My Lê

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Tuesday, May 23, 2017

'Hutch', 2004 by Kori Newkirk

[artificial hair, beads, metal bracket; 74 1/2 x 96 inches]

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Cheyenne Julien

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Artist Talk: Rafia Santana

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Joy Miessi

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'AGAINST THE SUPREMACY OF THOUGHT' by manuel arturo abreu [ARTICLE]

1. REANALYZING THE THOUGHT FETISH

By means of ‘lack of reason’—with religion, language, appearance, and other aspects serving as a litmus—the animalization of Black and brown people has been a critical tool of domination, invented to justify the white conquest, genocide, slavery, and other violence that engendered the contemporary.

What does it mean, then, that art today prizes thinking and the aesthetics of thought such as criticality, divestment from the sensory, and a demeanor of philosophical objectivity? The white West used these very criteria to dehumanize the global south and facilitate Euro expansion; in a specifically aesthetic context, modernism itself was premised on the spoils of imperial conquest.

Despite clarion calls of posthumanism, it is possible to excavate an exclusionary humanism in the fetishism for ‘objective philosophical thought’ in contemporary art which preserves the modernist dynamic of treating Black and brown people and aesthetics as raw material. We can recalibrate our definitions of art from the contemplation and production of the beautifully useless and self-referential. A continued utilitarian project of the violent subsumption of non-white aesthetics is possible through reading Allan Kaprow’s concept of post-art in the context of the Middle Passage and its afterlife.

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Juliana Huxtable 'A Split During Laughter at the Rally' @ Reena Spaulings [NYC/USA]

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Friday, February 10, 2017

Nairy Baghramian

[Flat Spine, 2016, Lacquered wood, resin; Portrait (The Concept_Artist Smoking Head, Stand-In), 2016 (in the background), 9 baryte b/w prints, 1 C-print (framed)]

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