Please join us for the final convening of the Black Earth Study Club, a series of transdisciplinary programs informed by Nolan Oswald Dennis’s exhibition, overturns, which weaves together artistic, scientific, and philosophical approaches to explore the the material and metaphysical conditions of decolonization.
Concluding the public program series, this event departs from photographer Santu Mofokeng’s proposition to consider land as a verb instead of a noun. Foregrounding this renewed orientation to land as a kind of geo-politics, scholars Kyle Mays and Quito Swan, artist and architect Saba Innab, and critic Zoé Samudzi will offer critical explorations of land dispossession and discuss historical and contemporary intimacies between struggles for self-determination across Africa, Europe, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas.
The afternoon will culminate in a performance on SI’s rooftop led by artist Andros Zins-Browne. Zins-Browne’s work, ground above world (after H), extends his inquiry into the relationships between bodies and ecology through an abstract language of gestures and materials that reflect on Blackness, property, and landlessness.