Thursday September 6th, 6pm | loop // experimental works in and out of the diaspora | MoCADA
September 6, 2012 – October 7, 2012
Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts
Curated by Jessica N. Bell and Terence Nance
Still from African Metropole: Sonic City Lagos by Mendi + Keith Obadike, multichannel sound
installation 2012.
On Thursday, September 6th 2012 at 6pm, the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts will present a survey of experimental video works in loop, curated by Jessica N. Bell and Terence Nance.
The first medium-specific exhibition of its kind at MoCADA, this selection of new works will include short looped sound and video installations, as well as weekly screenings of feature length work within the main gallery space.
loop will feature the works of acclaimed artists Mendi + Keith Obadike and Kevin Jerome Everson, alongside  emerging artists Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, O'Neil Lawrence, Legacy Russell, and Wilmer Wilson IV. These single and multiple channel video works and soundscapes rely on the recurrence of visual and sonic themes to explore contemporary social, political and aesthetic concerns. The larger project of loop, is to examine the role of video in our current moment of cultural production and contemporary art practice.
Films screened each Thursday throughout the duration of the exhibition include the groundbreaking oeuvres of Sun Ra and Edward Bland, Space Is The Place and The Cry of Jazz, respectively. Other contemporary works to be featured include Kevin Jerome Everson’s The Age of Golden Fish and Pocas Pascoal’s All Is Well.
For all press inquiries, please contact:
Jessica N. Bell, jessica.n.bell@gmail.com
For more information, please contact the museum at 718.230.0492 // info@mocada.org
No Comments
No comments yet.
Comments RSS TrackBack Identifier URI
Leave a comment
