Family Photograph, 1984. Courtesy of the Artist.
NIGHT SCHOOL with Kameelah Janan Rasheed
Friday, December 18, 2020 @ 6pm ET
Friday, January 22, 2021 @ 6pm ET
Friday, January 29, 2021 @ 6pm ET
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NIGHT SCHOOL invites the public for three evenings of learning with Kameelah Janan Rasheed. Inspired by Octavia Butler’s notion of “primitive hypertext,” or nurturing intimacy between seemingly disparate ideas, each evening begins with a short lecture interspersed with brief activities. After the lecture, learners engage in a series of gestures to create a collaborative object. “Students” who attend two of the three sessions will receive a limited edition publication printed by Rasheed after the series concludes. The classes are loosely organized around information culture and what Erik Davis in TechGnosis: myth, magic and mysticism in the age of information (1998/2004) calls the “technologies of perception and communication.”
◠ Workshop 1: Friday, December 18, 2020 @ 6pm ET
Nonhuman Countersurveillance - Vibrating Hawk Moth Genitalia and Whispering Cotton-Top Tamarin Monkeys
◠ Workshop 2: Friday, January 22, 2021 @ 6pm ET
Collaborative Writing - Algorithmic Text Generation, Ouiji Boards, and Distributed Authorship
◠ Workshop 3: Friday, January 29, 2021 @ 6pm ET
Approximation - Deepfakes, Archeological Forgeries, and Magical Potions
All events will be live-captioned. If you have additional access questions or needs for the event, please contact info@cueartfoundation.org and we will do our best to accommodate you.
Kameelah Janan Rasheed (b. 1985) is a learner invested in the poetics, politics, and pleasures of the unfinished. Working primarily with text, she considers ectopia (language in places unexpected), feral meaning (a refusal of a predictive or fixed meaning), and revision/redaction/return. With interests in the generative qualities of incompleteness, leakage, dispersal, and syncretism, Rasheed works across an ecosystem of iterative and provisional projects. These projects include sprawling, architecturally-scaled Xerox-based collages; large-scale text banner installations; publications; digital archives; lecture-performances; library interventions; poems/poetic gestures; and other forms yet to be determined. Rasheed has exhibited at the 2017 Venice Biennale; Institute for Contemporary Art Philadelphia; Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev, Ukraine; Brooklyn Museum; Queens Museum, New York; New Museum, New York; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Bronx Museum; Brooklyn Public Library; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, and The Kitchen, New York, among others. She is the author of two artist books, An Alphabetical Accumulation of Approximate Observations (Endless Editions, 2019) and No New Theories (Printed Matter, 2020).