Other notable artists include Torkwase Dyson, Steffani Jemison, and Ralph Lemon. Louis’s main thoroughfare, Jefferson Avenue. The event includes 30 commissioned installations, four of them, like Adjaye’s, site-specific and permanent, placed along six miles of St. The headliner at the second edition of this triennial is an earthwork by architect David Adjaye installed outside the Griot Museum of Black History (above), at a reported cost of $1 million. Now the ICA has brought the Venice pieces back home for this must-see touring exhibition, Leigh’s first museum survey. When Simone Leigh represented the United States at the Venice Biennale last year-the first Black woman to do so, as well as the winner of the event’s highest honor, the Golden Lion-ICA Boston was the commissioning institution. Image Credit: Photo Timothy Schenck/Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, New York and Los Angeles Image Credit: Courtesy Farrar, Straus and GirouxĬhristina Sharpe’s 2016 book, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, influenced countless artists who see their work in the light of Sharpe’s “wake work,” which she has said is “a way for me to think about the persistence of Black death-what Saidiya Hartman calls the ‘afterlife of slavery’-and the persistence of Black life, the ways in which Black people nonetheless make spaces of joy.” Such work involves “keeping watch with the dead” and “practicing a kind of care.” Sharpe’s new book takes the form of 248 notes, some deeply personal, in which she pays homage to her mother and forges a collective “Dictionary of Untranslatable Blackness.” Sample song titles: “We Found the Woop,” “Beal Jubjeb,” “Shrimp Tickles Ballyhoo,” and “Pranking the Art Dealer.” Sound Scribbles gathers sounds that many listeners might hesitate to classify as music, some with melodies and beats but most veering toward sound poetry and the glorious legacy of nonsense sounds proffered by touchpoint artists ranging from Kurt Schwitters and Hugo Ball to Ernie Kovacs and Jerry Lewis. Image Credit: Courtesy RVNG International, New YorkĪ painter and sculptor who ventures into wide-ranging varieties of performance and other art, Brian Belott also conducts experiments using his mouth and ramshackle recording equipment. The winning work: Elephant Without Trunk, an installation that engages notions of elephants via experiences of people with visual impairments. Since its opening in April, the Biennale has already awarded its inaugural $100,000 Park Seo-bo Award-named after the painter whose foundation endowed it-to the Seoul-based artist Oum Jeongsoon.

Image Credit: Courtesy Gwangju Biennale Foundation.Ī notable destination on the art world map since its founding in 1995, the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea has taken “soft and weak like water” as the title for its 14th edition, organized by Tate Modern senior curator Sook Kyung-Lee.

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