Black Life
Ongoing
Experience the vitality and range of cultural production in the African diaspora through this multidisciplinary event series.
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Black Life: Trina Michelle Robinson
- Upcoming
Films - Past
Films - Past
Events
Upcoming Events
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Saturday, February 7, 5 PMBlack Life: Memory as Miracle
What happens when two performance artists—identities unknown to each other as well as to the audience until the day of the show—come together?
Past Events
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Saturday, September 6, 5 PMBlack Life: Harvest as Miracle
The opening iteration of new Black Life Curator Gabriele Christian’s series of secret duets features two artists who are movers with a lengthy history of touches, folks who spellcast around harvest in land and community.
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Saturday, July 26, 5 PMBlack Life: Gabrielle Civil
Gabrielle Civil activates her latest performance memoir, In & Out of Place, highlighting her experience making Black feminist performance art in Mexico. Featuring live reading, art gestures, images, and short videos, she will recall swimming in Elizabeth Catlett's pool in Cuernevaca, singing Nina Simone with mariachis in Mexico City, becoming a live Mexican mammy doll, and more.
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Saturday, June 21, 5 PMBlack Life: Star Amerasu
Black Life presents a multimedia performance by Star Amerasu featuring live singing, dancing, video presentation, and a special TRANSmission from outer space. Amerasu’s work as a singer-songwriter and transdisciplinary artist is a heady, beat-driven pastiche that pulls equally from influences like the tenderness of early Björk, queer and trans history, meme culture, and apocalyptic AI discourse.
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Thursday, February 6, 5:30 PMBlack Life: Trina Michelle Robinson
In this combination lecture and workshop, visual artist Trina Michelle Robinson uses historical photographic techniques, handicraft, and deep knowledge of a material’s origins as a metaphysical means to revisit or access the memories and visions of Black ancestors.