About this Event
Pull up and join us for a screening and conversation surrounding the short film MOB (Moments of Blackness) and its encompassing themes/subject matter with Derek Holland (films’ creator, artist, researcher), Denny Mutungi Mwaura (curator, artist, writer) and Camille Bacon (writer)leading the talk and appearing in the film.
About MOB (Moments of Blackness):
This short film acts as an introduction to exploring definitions and experiences of community and Blackness from interpersonal and autobiographical perspectives. Footage collected from January 2020 of friends, family, and strangers seems to become a story of self and community connection(s), with the intent to clarify and obscure as life itself dictates.
After the film and screening, folks will have an opportunity to commune with drinks and light refreshments.
Run of schedule:
5pm: Doors
5:15pm: Introduction
5:30pm: Film Screening
5:50pm: Panel Discussion + Q&A
6:50pm: Drinks and light refreshments
7:45pm: Please Leave!
*Masks are strongly recommended*
ARTIST BIO:
Derek Holland is an artist and researcher currently based in Chicago,IL. Derek is currently an Access to Excellence Fellow, Instructor and MFA candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago focused on communicating and deconstructing definitions of Blackness, Data, Research methods, and Health. Derek has a background in Public health research and obtained a Master of Public Health (MPH) from Washington University in St. Louis where they were a Research Project Manager in addition to working for various other health equity centered organizations in St. Louis, MO, Baltimore, MD, Philadelphia, PA and recently Chicago, IL. Derek has collaborated in publishing several peer reviewed Public health articles and participated in group exhibitions in St. Louis, MO and Philadelphia, PA.
SPEAKER BIOS:
Camille Bacon is an exceptionally talented and skilled writer, orator, researcher. Camille is a Chicago-based writer who is cultivating a "sweet Black writing life" as informed by the words of poet Nikky Finney and the infinite wisdom of the Black feminist tradition more broadly. Her curiosities orbit around the aesthetic legacy of Black abstraction and the cultural production of her two homes: the United States and Martinique. She is a graduate of Smith College, has interned at The Studio Museum in Harlem, and has participated in writing programs such as The Black Embodiments Studio.
Denis Mwaura is a curator and writer based in Chicago. He is the Assistant Director at Gallery 400, UIC. Exhibitions and public programs his curatorial research has supported include, A Species of Theft (2022) and Young, Gifted and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art at Gallery 400; Malangatana: Mozambique Modern (2020), Naughty Nymphs in the Courtyard of the Favorites (2022), Igshaan Adams: Desire Lines (2022) at the Art Institute of Chicago; Wong Ping: Digital Fables (2021) and Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich: Speculative Archives (2021) at Conversations at the Edge. His writings on artists including Kapwani Kiwanga, Daniela Rivera, and Senzeni Marasela appear in the Boston Art Review and Africanah. Mwaura was the 2021 recipient of the Schiff Foundation Fellowship for Critical Architectural Writing, an award granted by the Department of Architecture and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago. He received his MA in Modern and Contemporary Art History from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
4445 S King Dr, 4445 South King Drive, Chicago, United States
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