About this Event
Join us on October 6th for a conversation between Simone Bailey and artist Leila Weefur. The two will discuss Bailey’s current solo exhibition at Headlands, The Lure of the Future, including the role of music in black life and contemporary art.
Following the conversation, join us for a public dinner prepared in collaboration between Bailey and Headlands' Chef Damon Little.
Schedule:
We welcome you to view the exhibition in our Project Space East before the conversation starts at 5:00PM. Free and open to the public.
Seating for the talk will start promptly at 4:30PM.
Seating for the ticketed dinner will begin at 6:30 PM. $65 Members | $75 Non-Members
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Simone Bailey is an artist who utilizes sculpture, performance, site specific installation, and video in her practice. Her work is an interrogation of disembodied poetics and the impulse to grasp the intangible. Her practice focuses on perception, process, musicality, hybridity, ephemerality, desire, violence, surrogate bodies, and the impossible, all while maintaining an intimate proximity to blackness.
Simone’s work has been exhibited at MASS MoCA, The Museum of the African Diaspora, Southern Exposure, The Lab, Armory Center for the Arts, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, among other venues. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies at Art Omi, Real Time & Space, Guild Hall, and Vermont Studio Center. She received both an MFA in Fine Arts and an MA in Visual & Critical Studies from California College of the Arts. She also earned a BFA in Filmmaking from San Francisco Art Institute. Simone lives and works in San Francisco.
Leila Weefur (He/They/She) is an artist, writer, and curator based in Oakland, CA. Through film and architecture, they examine the performative elements connected to systems of belonging, present in Black, queer, gender-variant embodiment. Their research, across disciplines, explores Black colloquial language, Religion, Transnational Blackness, and practices of collectivity. They received an MFA in Studio Art from Mills College and hold degrees in Film and Media Studies from California State University, Los Angeles, and Communication Studies from Howard University. Weefur’s writing has been published in SEEN, Sming Sming Books, Baest Journal, and more. Weefur has worked with local and national institutions including BlackStar Productions, Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts, CCA’s Wattis Institute, McEvoy Foundation, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Museum of the African Diaspora, and The Kitchen. They are summer 2024 fellow at MacDowell and will complete a residency at Bemis Center this fall. Weefur teaches in the Art & Art History Department at Stanford University and is a member of the curatorial film collective The Black Aesthetic.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Headlands Center For the Arts, 944 Fort Barry, Sausalito, United States
USD 0.00 to USD 81.88
