Monthly Archives: March 2014

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March 25th, 2014: 8pm Arthur Jafa

Daughters of the Dust, 1991

Arthur Jafa born 1960, in Mississippi, and studied Architecture and FilmHoward University in Washington, D.C.  Jafa is a cultural critic/worker, visual artist and African diasporic organic intellectual.  He often uses film to investigate issues surrounding black cultural politics and black cultural nationalism; is known for his longterm quest for an “authentic” black cinema. In his words “the idea(s) is obvious, the implementation is not.”

He is the director of Slowly This (1995), Tree (1999), and Deshotten1.0 (2009). His cinematography credits include Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust (1991), John Akomfrah’s Seven Songs for Malcolm X (1993); Spike Lee’sCrooklyn (1994), and Manthia Diawara’s Rouch in Reverse (1995).

Arthur Jafa’s essay “69”: http://www.blackculturalstudies.org/a_jafa/69.html

Deshotten (1.0) 

Lecture at M.I.T : http://mit.tv/YiRxqB

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March 11th, 2014: 8pm Matthew Day Jackson

Everything Leads to Another, 2011

Matthew Day Jackson was born in Panorama City CA, 1974, and graduated with an MFA from Rutgers University in 2001, following his BFA from the University of Washington in Seattle and in 2009.  He received his NHRA License, from Frank Hawley’s Drag Racing School, in Gainesville, FL. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn.

Jackson works in a multidisciplinary practice of sculpture, painting, collage, photography, drawing, video, performance and installation. His work explores a concept that he terms ‘the Horriful’, the belief that everything one does has the potential to bring both beauty and horror.

The Immeasurable Distance Between Eye and Fingertip, 2008
Chariot, 2008

 

Body Pressure, 2008

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