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We close out the Forum with a celebratory dinner for all, Viva Vera!, and a concert. Bridging Vera List Center past and future, Angel Bat Dawid, who first presented at the VLC in 2020 as part of Training for the Not-Yet: Protocols in the Making and is a collaborator of 2022–2024 VLC Fellow Anna Martine Whitehead on their fellowship project, returns to The New School with Sistazz of the Nitty Gritty and an in-progress preview of Whitehead’s FORCE! an opera in three acts.
Sistazz of the Nitty Gritty
Angel Bat Dawid, Artistic Director, Piano/Keys, Vocals, Electronics, Clarinet
SophiYah E., Synthesizer, Vocals, Sound Bowls
Monique Golding, Vocals and Saxophone
Erica "Eva Supreme" Nwachukwu, Vocals
This event will also be livestreamed on veralistcenter.org.
Presented by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the Schools of Public Engagement.
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Shuddhabrata Sengupta (born 1968, Delhi) is an artist, writer and curator with the Raqs Media Collective, based in Delhi. Raqs was formed in 1992 by Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi and Shuddhabrata Sengupta. The word ‘raqs’ in several languages denotes an intensification of awareness and presence attained by whirling, turning, being in a state of revolution. Raqs Media Collective take this sense to mean ‘kinetic contemplation’, and a restless entanglement with the world, and with time.
Raqs has exhibited widely, including at Documenta, the Venice, Istanbul, Taipei, Liverpool, Shanghai, Sydney and Sao Paulo Biennales. They have had solo shows in museums, in Boston, Brussels, Madrid, Delhi, Shanghai, London, New York, Toronto, Dusseldorf, Manchester, Doha, Buenos Aires among others.
Raqs curated Afterglow, Yokohama Triennale 2020, Why Not Ask Again, Shanghai Biennale 2016, Rest of Now, Manifesta 7 (Bolzano, 2008), Sarai Reader 09 (Gurgaon, 2012-13) and INSERT2014 (Delhi, 2014). ‘Hungry for Time’ an exhibition curated by them at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna will open in October, 2021.
Sengupta was a recipient of the Keith Haring Fellowship at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College in 2015. Apart from his work with Raqs, he contributes political and social commentary frequently to a number of magazines and portals, both in India, and elsewhere.
Simone Leigh Over the past two decades, Simone Leigh (b. 1967, Chicago, IL) has created an expansive body of work in sculpture, video, and performance that centers Black femme interiority. Inflected by Black feminist theory, Leigh’s practice intervenes imaginatively to fill gaps in the historical record by proposing new hybridities. In 2019, Leigh was the first artist commissioned for the High Line Plinth, New York. Recent exhibitions include The Hugo Boss Prize 2018: Simone Leigh, Loophole of Retreat at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2019); the 2019 Whitney Biennial; Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon (2017) at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Psychic Friends Network (2016) at Tate Exchange, Tate Modern, London; Hammer Projects: Simone Leigh (2016–17) at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; in Harlem: Simone Leigh (2016–17), a public installation presented
by The Studio Museum in Harlem at Marcus Garvey Park, New York; The Waiting Room (2016) at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; and Free People’s Medical Clinic (2014), a project commissioned by Creative Time. Leigh’s work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; Cleveland Museum of Art; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the ICA/Boston, among others.
