Lecture with Yasmina Price, Yale University
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
724 S. 12th Street
Omaha, NE 68102
Titled “Reaching, Remembering: On Miatta Kawinzi’s An Alphabet of Unfolding,” this lecture by Yasmina Price, PhD, will consider the exhibition through global black aesthetics, memory work, and liberatory pedagogy. Drawing connections to kindred writers, theorists and artists, it will follow the tempo of Kawinzi’s visual, sonic, ecological, and corporeal practice.
The lecture will be followed by a short discussion between Price and exhibiting artist Miatta Kawinzi.
Learn more about the exhibition Miatta Kawinzi: An Alphabet of Unfolding.
Admission is free; RSVPs are encouraged.
Yasmina Price is a New York–based writer and film programmer. She is devoted to visual culture from the African continent and diaspora, anticolonial cinema, and the experimental work of women filmmakers. Her programming has been featured at Anthology Film Archives, Light Industry, Maysles Documentary Center, e-flux, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Pan African Film & Arts Festival, and the National Gallery of Art. Her writing has appeared in edited volumes and museum catalogues, and has been published in the Nation, the Baffler, MUBI’s Notebook, Hammer & Hope, Film Quarterly, and World Records Journal. She holds a PhD in Black Studies and Film & Media Studies from Yale University.
Image above: Miatta Kawinzi, to trust the air might hold us, 2023. Detail of installation at PS122 Gallery, New York, NY. Series of four photographic prints on fabric. Photo by Etienne Frossard.
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