Steffani Jemison with Leslie Cuyjet on Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi скачать в хорошем качестве

Steffani Jemison with Leslie Cuyjet on Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi

Wednesday, April 30, 2025 6:30 pm Dia Chelsea 537 West 22nd Street New York, New York A transcript of Jemison’s lecture will be made available on the evening of the event. Steffani Jemison was born in Berkeley, California, in 1981. Working across performance, text, and sculpture, Jemison investigates and complicates modernist histories through the concept of the Black vernacular. Recent solo presentations include Steffani Jemison: New Videos, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2019); Bound, Greene Naftali, New York (2024); and Tumblers, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève (2024). Recent group exhibitions include the 2019 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of America Art, New York; Greater New York, MoMA PS1, Queens (2021); and Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2024). Jemison is the author of several books including Truth and Greatness (2011), Sensus Plenior (2017), and A Rock, A River, A Street (2018), and contributed an essay to the exhibition catalog for Las Vegas Ikebana: Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi at the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland (2025). Jemison lives in Brooklyn. Leslie Cuyjet is a choreographer, dancer, and writer. Her layered, research-based events integrating video, text, and performance explore notions of Black embodiment within postmodernist histories of dance and movement. Her work has been featured at the Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn (2020); the Shed, New York (2021); and the Kitchen, New York (2021 and 2023), among others. With Jemison, Cuyjet presented her work Ephemeral Organ at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer, Troy, New York (2024–25). Cuyjet lives in Brooklyn.