this week and next in Berkeley

Posted on | April 20, 2009 | No Comments

(This has been a fantastic series, and I don’t just say that because I was a part of it. If you’re in the Bay Area and can make it, I recommend trying to get to these last two presentations.)

Mendi+Keith Obadike
interdisciplinary artists

Artist talk
Wednesday, April 22
4-5:30pm
Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities
220 Stephens Hall

UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

Since 1996, Mendi+Keith Obadike’s collaborative work has combined poetry, sound, performance and visual images, to reconsider and imagine U.S. and black diasporic histories through site-specific pieces, whether theaters, museums or online. In 2001, Mendi+Keith attempted to auction Keith’s blackness on eBay in their internationally acclaimed piece, “Blackness for Sale.” Since then, their work has been commissioned by the Whitney, the New Museum, Whitechapel Art Gallery in London, and most recently, Northwestern and Princeton Universities, among others. You can learn more about their work at their website, blacknetart.com

Presented in conjunction with the Townsend GROUP Course AFAM 144: Black Visual Culture;
with support from the Townsend Center; Berkeley Center for New Media; the Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies; the Department of African American Studies

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Other events for the semester:
Wednesday, April 29, 220 Stephens Hall, 4-5:30
Steel Hard Skin: Black Superheroes and the Uncaging of the Black Body
John Jennings, Department of Graphic Art, UIUC; comic artist

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