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📽️ Join Us for an Evening with Cauleen Smith! 📽️ 🗓 Date: Thursday, November 21, 2024 🕖 Time: 7:00 PM 📍 Location: Ray Stark Family Theatre (SCA), USC ArtForum says that interdisciplinary artist Cauleen Smith is “something of a heroine” to “the Black vanguard—the Afrofuturists and community activists, the artists and writers and theorists imagining ways of living that dignify themselves as Black subjects as well as all of humanity.” At this event, a screening of short films by Smith will be followed by a conversation with the Los Angeles–based artist and USC professor Kara Keeling. Presented by USC Visions and Voices. Organized by Erin Graff Zivin @eringz (Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Comparative Literature) and Kara Keeling @karakeeling (Cinema and Media Studies). Co-sponsored by the USC Dornsife Experimental Humanities Lab. *** ADMISSION & CAMPUS ACCESS: Admission is free. Reservations are required. Campus access is limited to registered guests and USC students, staff, and faculty with current USC ID.

Just putting this right here. Reflecting… Black people spent over 100 years trying to teach our oppressors how to cultivate an ethical core. Voting is THE VERY LEAST a citizen can do. And this is what white folk and their adjacents do. 🤷🏾‍♀️ White Supremacy is the core of the ethic of this country. That’s why people want to immigrate here! Align with master - get money. Rinse repeat. 🧢🔵🔹🔷🟦🏧🔵🔹🔷💙🟦🧢 Democrats refused to listen to their constituency. They bent over for billionaires. Billionaires only get one vote (as of now at least). And they sold us out. Again. In the most painful of ways. Using our dreams against us. ✋🏾🤚🏾✋🏾🤚🏾✋🏾🤚🏾✋🏾🤚🏾✋🏾🤚🏾✋🏾🤚🏾✋🏾🤚🏾 Freedom Love Creativity Autonomy Collectivity Health Planetary Regard… All Underground. Underground. 🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨 ⛓️‍💥⛓️‍💥⛓️‍💥⛓️‍💥⛓️‍💥⛓️‍💥⛓️‍💥⛓️‍💥⛓️‍💥⛓️‍💥⛓️‍💥⛓️‍💥⛓️‍💥⛓️‍💥 ⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️ 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤69%… 74%… They have families. Offspring. It never stops. Im tired if meeting 4 year olds that already know they should fear me. Whiteness is so boring. So violent. Such misery. And they like it that way. Scary. Well white folk, put on your blue dresses and get ready for the rape rituals, start darning red hoods for your slaves. This is the world you voted for. Not All. Of course. (I put this qualification here for the fucking idiots. ) Yeah. Not all. 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸

So pleased that THE DEEP WEST ASSEMBLY is a part of 2024 #nyff62! @thenyff This film lived as a monster in my head for years. But several attempts (included in the final) never felt complete. We managed to literally stitch it together between May and June of this year. I am leaving it all on the floor🤗🪩 Co-produced by @astrupfearnleymuseet, creatively produced by @marimunro🎇 , and graphic effects produced by @marsudac 📺, cinematography by @haley_minyoung_kreofsky (and me but you will easily register Haley’s gorgeous work), costume design by @pr3ciousliljem , and super resourceful prop design by @sallyblu_ 🎬🎥🎞️📼📹🟩🟢🧩 Starring the luminous and fiercely intelligent actor @iamdionneaudain 🎈❤️ Ancestral presence brought to you by @khalifboyd 🕺🏽🌍🎭🩵 With appearances from artists @thereal.aliciapiller and @vickiearavindhan 🖌️📌📚👁️ Sound by #jameo Mixed @esschicago, colored by Andrew Francis 👂🏾🦻🏾🎧 Music by The Art Ensemble of Chicago (thank you Mr. Mitchell!)🎼🎵🎶🎺🥁🎹🎷🪈 Thank you St Louis Art Museum, for the tiffs 📷 and bg research. Special thank you to the DASL Crew #michaelagyin @mervinpobryant #marcbowman And @nyeishaprince, Director of DASL🔥🧏🏾‍♀️🧏🏿‍♂️🧏🏽🎀🗝️🙏🏾 This list is incomplete. I send love and thanks to all, ALL the shepherds. 💗💓 The Deep West Assembly🏜️ Cauleen Smith, 2024, U.S., 35m World Premiere: America’s violent history of settler colonial extraction and enslavement is posited against the expansive lens of geologic time in The Deep West Assembly. Commingling theater and computer animation, textiles and dance, Black and Indigenous cultural traditions, Cauleen Smith locates an anti-racist methodology for the end of the world in the spaces underground, where the interior of the Earth becomes a place of possibility and new ways of relating. #thedeepwestassembly #experimentalfilm #laurels 🫶🏾

free final screening of the series! :) ~ link in bio @lacma at @cinemark 4020 Marlton Ave Sat Sep 21 6-9pm Insurgent Sisters: Women of the L.A. Rebellion and beyond celebrates films of the “Insurgent Sisters” of the L.A. Rebellion film movement that emerged at UCLA Film School and the work they have made and inspired since, showcasing films by Black women and non-binary artists that perform a recovery of Blackness in Los Angeles, interrogating and transgressing the conventions of cinema along the way. Recoveries of Spirit, the final of two shorts programs in the series, features work from Anita Addison, Omah Diegu ( @iloputaifeijeoma ), Martine Syms ( @martinesyms ), Rikkí Wright ( @rikkwright ), Imelda Sheen, Alima Lee ( @alima_lee ), Stormé Bright Sweet, Cauleen Smith ( @cauleen_smith ), O.Funmilayo Makarah, Danielle Dickerson, and Barbara McCullough ( @iambarbaramcc ). Stick around after the screening for lively storytelling and celebration of this magical work with the filmmakers! Free RSVP at the link in bio Curation and trailer edit by @mataazii

It has taken me a moment to gather thoughts about the wonderful privilege of being included so intimately in this glorious epistolary show curated by @amberesseiva for @icavcu, #DearMazie. Dear Mazie, is a group exhibition inspired by the life and work of Amaza Lee Meredith (1895–1984), the trailblazing artist and educator who became the first known Black queer woman to practice as an architect in the United States. Curator Amber Esseiva has commissioned 11 contemporary artists, designers, and architects to create responses to Meredith’s multifaceted legacy for this show, which will be accompanied by public programs and a robust publication enriched with archival material. Such a stellar roster of contributing artists! —AD–WO (Emanuel Admassu and Jen Wood), The Black School (Joseph Cuillier and Shani Peters), Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Kapwani Kiwanga, Abigail Lucien, Practise (James Goggin and Shan James), Tschabalala Self and moi!✨🤗☺️ Not only did I get to do a deep dive into the life of this phenomenal person, Amaza Meredith, I was invited to do site visit her family’s summer home in Azurest, Sag Harbor. Upon arrival I was embraced by the most elegant and gracious host, Mr. Williams who promptly connected me with a descendant of Amaza’s sister Maud, the founder of the glorious Sag Harbor community, AZUREST, as well as many generational residents. 🙏🏾✨ I learned a lot of things but truthfully this was the first time I really considered Summer as something more than to be survived. Leisure! Black people doing leisure. The east coast is wild! I love it. 💗 My piece is about place, making it and the need for it. From Long Island to Bruce Beach. From the deep west to Palestine. We need places to be to share to rest to love to think to create. Thank you, Amber, Andrew, and the entire ICA VCU crew. 💙 Thank you Azurest Fam. 💙 For all of it. For being in good company. For everything. Thank you. 🙏🏾 💙🌊🌅

A week of screenings and a workshop at @cinemateketioslo and no pictures to show but what a lovely conversation with KOS Daisuke🙏🏾🫶🏾🤘🏾✨Thank you Hege and everyone at cinemateket for the wonderful care and hospitality. Still no pics with my ride-or-die preperator Ein but that’s OK legends dont need gram shine! Sunshine everyday in Oslo 🌞i let LA take credit for that. #thedeepwestassembly movie goes from Oslo to @thenyff !! The whole crew and I are so proud and biggest thanks to @marimunro for expansive producer creative spirit. 🫶🏾🙌🏾oour movie looks so good up in here!!! Thank you @solveigovstebo for vision generosity creative problem solving and kindnesses. Owen Martin- always looking out and thinking through✨ Thank you Entire Astrup Fearnley Staff and Hosts and Install crew and gift shop. I felt welcome everywhere and felt like I was backed by a legion of co-conspirators. ☺️♥️ Thank you Mia and Rhea. The adventure continues!!🌋☄️✨🙏🏾 The real MVP: @ayeshatjordan The great connector, the energizer! The programing for my show was so thoughtful and generous and Oslo has a 💎✨✨✨🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾💙thank you friend for all the care and time and fun. Ro!♥️ Camille!♥️ And alllllll the Black Women of the Diaspora who showed up and propped me up. ❤️‍🔥🫶🏾forever. Ok. That’s goodbye. That’s thank you. Onwards. 🍃💚🐢🍉🧩🛶🟢🪀🪲🦚🪴🧪🌴🎍📗👾🙆🏾‍♀️☔️👩🏽‍🎤🪻🪁♎️🧕🏾🍇💜🌙🧀🍯📒⛱️🧈🧅🐝🍍🌸🌷💄👛🎟️🌺🦋🧢🔵🌀🪣🫐🥿🥕📙🦺🧶🥭🍊🧡🌋🗻🚵🏾‍♂️🌄

A huge thank you to everyone that joined us for «Sensing the Deep» by B16 Collective, an embodied conversation and reflection on «The Deep West Assembly» by Cauleen Smith!⁠ ✨🌋 ⁠ For two hours, Amalie Sasha Schanke, Yurley Larsen (alias Yurleyley) and Jasmin Lindstrøm (alias Jazzy), performed an experimental and exploratory improvisation!⁠ ⁠ As we accompanied the dancers through the exhibition, we bore witness to the themes, emotions, and inspirations that emerged. We were granted the privilege of engaging with their process and how their experiences as racialized Black bodies in Norway resonated with Cauleen Smith’s work, which delved into concepts of geological time and Blackness, Afrofuturism, memory, history, literature, and the environment.⁠ ⁠ ⁠ «Sensing the Deep» was a part of the public program for the exhibition The Deep West Assembly. The program is a collaboration between Cauleen Smith and Ayesha Jordan with contributions from ASSATA, Jelsen Lee Innocent, Nora Mamdu, Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor, The Free Black Women’s Library, Waldane Walker and members of B16 Collective: Amalie Sasha Schanke, Yurley Larsen (alias Yurleyley) and Jasmin Lindstrøm (alias Jazzy).⁠ ⁠ ⁠ #CauleenSmith #astrupfearnley #astrupfearnleymuseet

Blomsterarrangementer 🌸📺 ⁠ Åtte av Smiths videoer er i dette rommet samlet til en skulpturell monitorsøyle. Hver video er filmet med et statisk kamera, og viser kunstneren selv i arbeid med å sette sammen blomsteroppsatser. Videoene er en del av en pågående serie som Smith har jobbet med siden 2010, og er løst inspirert av tradisjoner innen blomsterarrangement, som japansk ikebana. Verket underbygger den meditative atmosfæren man finner i flere andre deler av utstillingen.⁠ ⁠ Verkene er også en hyllest til tidlig videokunst, som for eksempel Black and Blue over You (After Bas Jan Ader for Ishan) (2010) – en direkte referanse til konseptkunstner Bas Jan Aders video Primary Time fra 1974. I likhet med Smiths videoer er også Aders verk et opptak av kunstneren selv som arrangerer blomster, men der Aders film er uten lyd, er Smiths video akkompagnert av en saksofonsolo, hentet fra Anthony Braxtons Saxophone Improvisations Series F (1972).⁠ ⁠ _⁠ ⁠ ⁠ Flower Arrangements 🌸📺 ⁠ Eight related videos are assembled into a sculptural column. Each video is filmed with a static camera, and depicts the artist carefully arranging flowers. The videos are part of an ongoing series that Smith has been working on since 2010, and are loosely inspired by traditions of flower arranging, such as Japanese ikebana. They are underpinned by a meditative atmosphere found in several other works in the exhibition.⁠ ⁠ These works are also a tribute to early video art, such as Black and Blue Over You (After Bas Jan Ader for Ishan) (2010)—a direct reference to conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader’s video Primary Time, from 1974. Like Smith’s videos, Ader’s work is a recording of the artist arranging flowers, but where Ader’s film is without sound, Smith’s video is accompanied by a saxophone solo, taken from Anthony Braxton’s Saxophone Improvisations Series F (1972).⁠ ⁠ ⁠ Video still: Cauleen Smith, «Home Girls», 2024⁠ Photos: Christian Øen ⁠ ⁠ #CauleenSmith #astrupfearnley #astrupfearnleymuseet

| 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮 𝗾𝘂𝗲 𝘀𝗲 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗱𝗮 𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲 𝗲𝗻 𝘂𝗻 𝗹𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗿 (𝗦𝗼𝗷𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗿) Sumérgete en la profundidad de “Sojourner”, la impactante obra cinematográfica de Cauleen Smith que conjuga historia negra, espiritualidad y afrofuturismo. Ambientada con la icónica música de Alice Coltrane (1937-2007), la obra sigue a un grupo de mujeres por los Estados Unidos, visitando lugares emblemáticos como Watts Towers en Los Ángeles y el Museo de Arte al Aire Libre del Desierto de Joshua Tree, portando estandartes naranjas translúcidos. Smith utiliza estos escritos como una lente sanadora para considerar el pasado, inspirándose en generaciones de mujeres negras cuyo activismo y arte ofrecen una puerta hacia la iluminación espiritual y la liberación. “Sojourner” no solo expone la visión única de Smith sobre la experiencia negra, sino que también fusiona la espiritualidad con el activismo en una poderosa expresión de autodescubrimiento y resistencia. “Sojourner” forma parte de “Pies bajo fuego: sobre el despojo - segunda parte” y estará disponible hasta el 1 de septiembre. Ven al Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá y sumérgete en esta obra transformadora que desafía, inspira y conecta. ¡No te pierdas esta oportunidad única de experimentar el poder del arte! Gracias al apoyo de @bibankpanama. 🎥 @johndyphoto 🎙️ @carlosreyesw

Join Ayesha Jordan in the Reading Room! Cauleen Smith has embedded a reading room in the exhibition space, including a library comprising an international reading list made in collaboration with Oslo-based artist Ayesha Jordan, including contributions by ASSATA and The Free Black Women’s Library!⁠ ⁠ Hang out, play a record, read a book and pick up the reading list! In our museum shop you can find Smith’s book «Volcano Manifesto» among others.⁠ ⁠ ⁠ #CauleenSmith #AyeshaJordan #assata #TheFreeBlackWomensLibrary #astrupfearnley #astrupfearnleymuseet

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