Saturday, November 21

Performances at 4pm and 5pm

The first performance will be streamed live as a 360-degree video on YouTube and will remain available online afterwards at this link.

The GUIDE (performed by Clareese Hill) presents Transmission: A Survival Praxis Through Hood Feminism, Negritude, and Poetics through a performance lecture collaborating with The BODY, a holder of the lived experience occupying the marginalized category of an Afro-Caribbean American Woman. You are going to witness a Transmission, a conjuring praxis that is an aspect of an artistic research project about the colonial project of making and sustaining “identity” in the Western social context and a speculative Post-Identity Dimension that acts in opposition to it.
Encompassing critical theory from Black, Indigenous, and Feminist canons to offer the possibility of the Post-Identity Dimension as a space of rest for performance weary identities, Transmission unpacks the historical precarity of Black female subjectivity in the durational performance of living in the Western landscape and the roles, spaces, and times she must occupy. The GUIDE makes this provocation by activating Hood Feminisim as a practice that critiques the academic operations of traditional feminist theory by centering on concern for the everyday survival of the Black woman and the habitual subjugation tactics she endures. Negritude is about returning to the cultural ideologies of Black cultural communities of the pre-colonial site before the establishment of the fictive notions of white superiority and the inferiority of who is considered  “other” in the gaze of the Eurocentric lens. Poetics is a methodology of working through and creating relations between theories of Hood Feminism and Negritude by establishing respectful discourse around differences between human citizens to achieve togetherness for humanity to survive how we have arrived at the contemporary social condition. 

This program is part of Bound up Together: On the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment, curated by Rachel Gugelberger. The event will take place in-person at Smack Mellon and will also be streamed live in 360-degree video on YouTube. All in-person visitors must wear a mask and follow social distancing guidelines – please see the full Courtesy Code before attending. 

Image: Clareese Hill, The Archive of The GUIDE -VR, Virtual Reality Experience on the Oculus Quest, 2020. Courtesy of the artist.