The Portrait is a performance by iQhiya, a collective of young black South African female artists based in Cape Town. In April 2017 the work was performed in Athens (at the Athens School of Fine Art – ASFA) as part of the exhibition documenta 14. An endurance and durational piece, that comprised the members of […]
On October 29, 1949, the Gen. Howze pulled into New York Harbor with 1,352 refugees on board. I was one of them. I settled down in Williamsburg, the poorest part of Brooklyn, but that was the luckiest day of my life.
[David Tudor premieres John Cage’s 4’33” , Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock, New York.]
This is the date that Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus for white passengers. I grew up in a racist environment of family, friends, and culture in Houston TX, never feeling right about it. So the action of Rosa Parks resonated strongly with me and changed my world.
We have chosen this image (sic) and historical date because of the significance of this moment, of women’s unity, and protest in our practice. We as an all-black-woman collective are responding to the erasure of black women who have had the strength to bear the burden of fighting for equal rights in South African history.
The images on these pages (sic) refer to the most important days in my career as an artist. August 29, 1959, is the date of HH 1. About two months later, I burned two bicycle tires. Together, they persuaded me to take art seriously and spend the rest of my life in its pursuit.
I didn’t catch Moldovan artist Pavel Brăila’s The Ship in Kassel during documenta 14. According to the description in the exhibition’s guidebook and website, The Ship: takes the form of a public bus roaming the city streets of Kassel. Appearing as though half-submerged in seawater, the bus is an appropriation of the Stultifera Navis, or […]
In 1965, a troupe of architects, designers, poets, artists, and philosophers made a journey from Cape Horn to Santa Cruz de la Sierra in Bolivia. Leaving out a large area of the continent to the north, it made us wonder what it meant to be American.