autumn studio update 2024
Hey y’all,
I hope that these words find you safe and healthy, and that you are taking good care as we move into a new season. These are trying times, but I am so grateful to be creating art and deepening my collaborations with so many wonderful folks. Hopefully I’ll catch you at one of my upcoming events in the Bay— there will be plenty of opportunities this fall.
Litanies: A Ritual Reading for Audre Lorde
Litanies is a ritual reading performance commemorating the 50th anniversary of Lorde delivering her first poetry reading at the Women's Building in the fall of 1974. A collaboration with Alexis Pauline Gumbs, this is the third installation in the Readings, a series of live ritual performance readings of the work of black literary ancestors of the African Diaspora.
Litanies will feature readings by M. Jacqui Alexander, Xtal Azul, Kiara Brown, Andrea Canaan, champoy, Malkia Devich-Cyril, Ashara Ekundayo, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Alie Jones, Cherríe Moraga, Pratibha Parmar, Kiara Sample, Dora Silva Santana, Dagmar Schultz, Eric Stanley, Amara Tabor-Smith, Leila Weefur, and more.
This event is sponsored by the African American Art & Culture Complex, Artist as First Responder, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, E.A.R.T.H. Lab SF, The Women’s Building, the San Francisco Public Library, EastSide Arts Alliance, the Bay Area Lesbian Archives, the UC Berkeley Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, the UC Berkeley Department of Ethnic Studies, the UC Berkeley Department of African American Studies & African Diaspora Studies, the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture, and the Center for Race & Gender.
Black W(hole): A Black Feminist Art Happening
Litanies is part of an intergenerational convening of Black feminist artists and scholars taking place October 16-19 across the Bay Area. Powered by Artist As First Responder, it promises to be an uniquely powerful meeting of Black feminist thinkers that you’ll want to witness.
“A black hole is so dense light cannot escape from it. A black hole gives shape to everything around it. A black hole is a dead star. A black hole curves space/time. Time ends in a black hole. A black hole is a portal to futures we cannot imagine. Black (W)hole: A Black Feminist Art Happening is an organic convergence of Black feminist energy, aesthetics, memory, and practice in the San Francisco Bay Area. This convergence brings together a powerful constellation of Black feminist artists, writers, thinkers, and cultural workers whose work is concerned with questions of black futurity, black femme embodiment and subjectivity, history and the archive, Black feminist epistemologies, the Earth, the sacred, and the work of sustaining ancestral memory.” — Ashara Ekundayo, Black W(hole) Spell Caster.
Learn more at the link below.
Upcoming Exhibitions & Performances
I will be performing with Amara Tabor- Smith on Nov. 1st as part of Dance Mission Theater’s D.I.R.T. (Dance In Revolt(ing) Times) Festival, a series of contemporary dance and movement performances rooted in social justice. More details to come soon, but for now, check out their site here, and save the date.
A short film documenting my performance Bendición is now up for view as part of Ecologies of Peace, a new exhibition at C3A in Córdoba, Spain. I also published a new essay about the work in their exhibition catalogue, which will be available shortly.
Altar Goods
And just a reminder— Altar wear is still up for grabs! I’d love to see you how you style it. Check out the line here.
Thanks, as always, for tuning in. Until next time.
Peace,
C
CDM Studio, Berkeley, CA, 94704, USA
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