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I'm looking forward to this conversation featuring my smart, fly folks @fredara @richmedina @joanmorgan 🖤

"Exploring Black Rest in Black Music" is open to the public - RSVP information below.

Reposted @nyucbvc We invite you to join us this Wednesday [March 6] for the Exploring Black Rest in Black Music panel! A continuation of the Black Rest Project at the Center for Black Visual Culture, this iconic panel of artists, scholars, and sonic storytellers will interrogate the critical role Black music plays in facilitating the act of rest for Black Bodies, and will explore how “the rest,” “the pause,” and “the break,” in music function as facilitators of reprieve and revival.

Featuring: @jakegoldbas @fredara @richmedina @bookerbbbrown and Kwami Coleman

#BlackRest #BlackMusic #BlackScholars #NYUCBVC #RestIsResistance

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Exploring Black Rest in Black Music

Date: Wed, Mar 6 • 6:30 PM EST

Location: 20 Cooper Square, New York, NY 10003

#NewExhibit

@nyucbvc Presents "Rest is Power"

September 7 - October 22, 2023

The 20 Cooper Square Gallery

New York University

20 Cooper Sq. #NYC

Opening Reception:

Thursday, September 7, 2023, 5 - 7:30pm

Reposted from @nyucbvc The Center for Black Visual Culture presents an exhibition that amplifies visual narratives of rest for global Black people. In a selection of artworks that span #photography, #painting, and #newmedia, the curators underscore Black rest as a radical act of resistance. We invite you to our new space at 20 Cooper Square to experience artwork in which Black Rest resists, revives, and replenishes.

More info: cbvc.nyu.edu

Reposted from @cmxnr Let’s talk about rest. 🫂 Earlier this summer, the NYU Center for Black Visual Culture (@nyucbvc) invited an intimate group of organizers, curators, scholars, and artists to engage in the Black Rest Project in Venice during @labiennale. A car-free place of connecting islands and bridges, by design, the cityscape prompted our collective slow down. Together we considered how organizations and ways of being uphold extractive systems where the value of a person is determined by how much they produce. Inspired by Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto, by Tricia Hersey of @thenapministry, new frameworks, language, collaborations, and alternative models emerged as equanimous paths forward.

Join us on this ongoing journey, and namely on September 7 in New York for the Center’s fall exhibition: Rest is Power. In a selection of artworks that span photography, painting, and new media, the curators underscore Black rest as a radical act of resistance. Among the 30 astonishing participants, Miami-based artists and #cmxnr collaborators @corneliustulloch and Chris Friday (@_kinyobi_) will exhibit alongside @carriemaeweems and Gordon Parks.

Overwhelming gratitude to our fellow Black Rest Project committee members and to guiding lights Dr. Deborah Willis (@debwillisphoto) and Dr. Joan Morgan (@joanmorgan).

This photograph by Season Four artist Lisa Leone (@thereallisaleone) of Joan in her element in Miami Beach will also be on view at Rest is Power.