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The Black Domestic<\/em><\/h1>\n

2023<\/h3>\n

August 30 – September 29<\/h4>\n

SITE Sharp Gallery<\/h5>\n

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Curator<\/h3>\n

Saida Blair and Jordan Barrant<\/p>\n

Contributing Artists<\/h3>\n

Kwame Gomez, Christian K. Lee, Kamau Patton, Brianna Perry, Schetauna Powell, Chris Reeder<\/p>\n

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Exhibition Statement as Preserved in the SUGS\/SITE Archives:<\/h3>\n
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Living rooms have historically been a site of community building; from activist coalition meetings to church services to holidays; The Black Domestic explores the familial archive as a site worthy of deep investigation and discovery. The exhibition focuses on the living room, a space lived and imagined by Black Americans, and centers its history as a site of collecting and archiving. Looking at the intersections between Black artists adapting familial archives, it asks how the exhibition space can facilitate communing through the lineage of Black living rooms and how that communion invites resistance.<\/p>\n

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The Black \u200b\u200bDomestic is a six-person exhibition, bringing Black graduate students and faculty at SAIC together to speak to Black familial lineages, our current political sphere, and our hopes and dreams for Black futurities. For Black Americans, the living room is a new space, a space that became alive after slavery and one that is still not experienced or afforded to all Black Americans. The Black Domestic invites Black students and faculty to continue to commune and see each other as co-conspirators as we enter the art world and beyond.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Programs<\/h3>\n

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August 30, 4:00-6:00 PM
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Sonic Meditations and Home Infusions<\/p>\n

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Poetics of Home<\/p>\n

September 15, 4:00-6:00 PM
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“Reminiscent of one’s familial elders reading to the family’s children, guests will be seated on chris reeder’s cushions, woven with imges of home and community gatherings. Nakiyah T.M. Jordan, a recent alum, and Black, lesbian Mississippi artist & poet, uses her love ofher home state in the South to embrace the use of language she was surrounded by growing up in the rural parts of Southern mississippi. DUring the begining of the program, Nakiyah will share a portion of their work, and afterward, they will invite attendees to share their own or favorite written works that reminds them of family and home.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Exhibition Material<\/h3>\n

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The Black Domestic<\/em> was featured in an article on the SAIC News website.<\/p>\n

COBRA Brings Black Graduate Students Together<\/a><\/p>\n

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