![]() In Your Way - Kate Gilmore January 10 - FebruGilmore’s work incorporates performance, video, sculpture, and painting. Department of the Treasury and the Arts & Culture Alliance. Funding was generously provided by the TN Arts Commission Art Access Program, Arts & Culture Alliance, Knox County, the Department of the Treasury, Jerry's Artarama, and UTK co-sponsorship from the Department of Africana Studies, Multicultural Student Life at the Frieson Black Cultural Center, the Office of Community Engagement and Outreach, the School of Design, UT Libraries, and the School of Art Programming Committee. This project was supported in whole or in part, by federal award number 21.027 awarded to the City of Knoxville by the U.S. It’s not the work itself that is precious, but the subject matter, the conversation it invokes, and the actionable response it inspires. This is to disassociate the idea that work is precious. Yet the oversize works are printed on paper and often hang unframed above the audience by clips with a natural hang and curvature. ![]() Their work is often printed large to command the Afrofuturist liberated space where the audience must engage with a mutual respect and often awe of the life-size subject matter. By centralizing Black people within the narrative, BLACKMAU prompts the audience to imagine themselves in the spaces with them. Their works demystify the weightier conversations of Black people’s erasure from future spaces, by creating images that are simple to begin interpreting visually. The liberated future is a long past conversation with a reality not yet fulfilled. This is to prompt a response of the age of the conversation that the works are attempting to provoke. ![]() Often, the work appears to be older, aged, eroded through use and exposure. Their use of digital collage spans from rough cutout designs to pristine clean edges to the visible residue of the digital erasure. Audacious Black Freedom Dreams August 22 - OctoBLACKMAU utilizes digital collage aesthetics influenced by, and mimic inexpensive mass production and advertising practices of the 1980’s-90’s Hip-Hop and House music culture. ![]()
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