PRICE: Free; Tickets required - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-cooper-gallery-presents-bluesblankblack-by-dell-m-hamilton-tickets-30083474482
PHONE: 617-496-5777
TIME: 12:00 am - 01:00 pm
Boston-based artist Dell M. Hamilton responds to the Carrie Mae Weems exhibition with an intriguing in-gallery performance, engaged with the social and geopolitical constructions of memory, gender, race, language and history.
Blues/Blank/Black incorporates key texts from two of Toni Morrison’s most well known and widely taught novels: The Bluest Eye and Beloved. In addition the performance also conjures figures from American fairytales (goldilocks, Brer Rabbit) and Latin American (La Sucia & La Llorona) folkloric traditions. Blues/Blank/Black also juxtaposes these elements with the invocation of some of the names of black women who have died as a result of police violence. Through gesture, color and repetition, Blues\Blank\Black interrogates trauma and its afterlives as a way of accounting for intergenerational memory, madness, haunting and erasure.
Very limited entry:
This is a live performance (~ 25/30 min) that moves through the gallery.
Followed by a reception.
Tickets will be on sale Tuesday, December 13th, at 10 am.