We’re back, presenting old and new works, and taking up space at a week-long residency on CCA’s Oakland campus. Thanks to student-run collective S.P.A.C.E. Residency, we were invited to install a show in Shaklee Gallery A21, located in the Sculpture Department. We’re also having our first artist talk at the closing reception tomorrow, Friday 10/20 at 7pm.
a sonic companion to the 5/5 group show and for your listening pleasure….
Today at California College of the Arts (CCA) grad studios, 5/5 presents HOLD, 6-9PM in the Trapezoid space (grad studios courtyard between Hooper 1 and 2)
While studying painting and printmaking at Yale University, Tomashi Jackson noticed that the language Josef Albers used to describe color perception phenomenon, in his 1963 instructional text Interaction of Color, mirrored the language of racialized segregation found in the transcripts of education policy and civil rights court cases fought by Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF).
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y’all.
i saw Arthur Jafa’s “Love is the Message, the Message is Death” yesterday. it’s a 7 min video of found-footage overlayed with Kanye’s “Ultralight Beam.”
along with the press release, there were free pamphlets for visitors – Arthur Jafa: My Black Death – i read it on the subway last night after seeing the show. the link above is the complete set which also features Frantz Fanon, Sylvia Wynter, and W.E.B. DuBois.
mind blown.
the pamphlet touches on picasso, duchamp, polluck and more. it contextualizes their artistic production in relation to african art, black music i.e. jazz and how both (african art + black music) redirected western art practices toward a black aesthetic, yet by way of sponging off the genius and removing black bodies, etc.
it felt like a lot of what we discussed in classes last semester, but of course a vastly different analysis. fingers crossed it travels and we all get a chance to see it soon in the bay or elsewhere.
Blitz the Ambassador just released his fourth studio album Diasporadical. He’s a Ghanaian-American hip-hop and visual artist I’ve been following for a while. The 3 music videos below were each shot in a different location: Accra, Ghana, Brooklyn, USA and Bahia, Brazil. Together they form a 15-minute short film.
“The album title ‘Diasporadical’ was born out of this experience” Blitz explains. ” The radical notion that no matter how fragmented the African diaspora is, the influence of rhythm and spirituality remains largely the same.”
5/5ths 