Lecture with Yasmina Price, Yale University
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
724 S. 12th Street
Omaha, NE 68102
Join us for a lecture by Yasmina Price, PhD, who will situate both of Bemis’s exhibitions within contemporary critical discourse, addressing how artists engage memory as both a site of rupture and possibility.
Learn more about the exhibitions: Miatta Kawinzi: An Alphabet of Unfolding and MOTHER TIME: Measuring ourselves within the landscape
Admission is free; RSVPs are encouraged.
Yasmina Price is a writer, researcher, and PhD candidate in the Departments of African American Studies and Film & Media Studies at Yale University. She focuses on anti-colonial African cinema and the work of visual artists across the Black diaspora, with a particular interest in the experimental work of women filmmakers. She has interviewed filmmakers and participated in panels on black film and revolutionary cultural production organized by The Maysles Documentary Center, International Documentary Association, New York Film Festival, and more. Recent writing has appeared in The Current(Criterion), The New Inquiry, The New York Review of Books, the Metrograph Journal, Vulture, Hyperallergic, and MUBI.
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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