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The weather forecast is looking great for our final weekend of Art on the Stoop: Sunset Screenings. Bring a blanket and settle at 5pm for an evening of video art projected on the plaza. Friday and Saturday's program was organized by UOVO Prize-winning artist John Edmonds, featuring works by Glenn Ligon, John Edmonds, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Steph Foster, Ja’Tovia Gary, Sara Cwynar, and Ka-Man Tse. Sunday's screenings include works by Hank Willis Thomas, with Bayeté Ross Smith and Kamal Sinclair, Howardena Pindell, Adama Delphine Fawundu, Susan Janow, and Lorraine O’Grady.⁠

I was a homophobic person until I watched the world premiere of “The Fosters”. Steph and Lena taught me that love is love and that “DNA doesn’t make a family, love does”.

This has been a rollercoaster with the show. It was a love-hate relationship mostly because of Brallie (I used to ship them) and Mariana but in the three part finale they have tremendously mature especially Mariana. I am sure going to miss these characters because not only did they taught me about family but also about acceptance.

These three video works, all featured in UOVO Prize-winning artist John Edmonds’ program for Art on the Stoop: Sunset Screenings, explore and complicate rituals within various personal and cultural contexts. Steph Foster’s black-and-white, slow-motion video Libation (2018) reenacts the grieving ritual of pouring out malt liquor from forty ounce bottles, which the artist juxtaposes with archival audio from the funeral of Robert “Yummy” Sandifer, an 11-year-old in 1994 who was killed by a fellow gang member in Chicago. In an offering | six years | a conjecture (2018), Tiona Nekkia McClodden examines cultural representations of Shango, a deity or Orisha in Yoruba religion and the Afro-Cuban religion Santería/Lucumí, alongside her personal spiritual practice. Ka-Man Tse’s Gahp Song (2009-ongoing) is a participatory video project that honors and subverts the custom of giving food to an elder or loved one at the table before serving oneself in a traditional Chinese household. 

This is the last weekend to see these three videos and more as part of Art on the Stoop: Sunset Screenings, showing on our plaza through November 8, starting at 5pm.