Arthur Jafa, Mickey Mouse was a Scorpio, 2016 Wallpaper © Arthur Jafa. Courtesy the artist and Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York/Rome.
The curator Amira Gad on Arthur Jafa
Lecture
28.6 2019
Stockholm
Amira Gad talks on Arthur Jafa
An introduction by one of the curators of the exhibition ”Arthur Jafa: A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions (Featuring Ming Smith, Frida Orupabo and Missylanyus)”.
Date: Friday 28 June, 2019
Time: at 17.30–18.30
Place: the Auditorium, floor 2
Language: English
Price: free admission
Booking: no booking
Read more about the exhibition: Arthur Jafa: A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions (Featuring Ming Smith, Frida Orupabo and Missylanyus)
Video: Amira Gad on Arthur Jafa
Content: Introduction (00:05), Lecture by curator Amira Gad (03:15), Q&A with the artists Arthur Jafa and Ming Smith (42:10).
Amira Gad talks on Arthur Jafa
Amira Gad and Hans Ulrich Obrist curated the exhibition ”Arthur Jafa: A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions (Featuring Ming Smith, Frida Orupabo and Missylanyus)” for the Serpentine Galleries in 2017. This exhibition is now coming to Stockholm. By way of introduction, you can listen to Amira Gad’s lecture on Arthur Jafa’s artistic practice.
She will also be presenting the screeening of Jafa’s breakthrough work “Love is the Message, the Message is Death” (2016).
In his work, the filmmaker and artist Arthur Jafa explores the historical and contemporary conditions for an African-American visual culture. After two decades in independent film, Jafa entered the art scene at the beginning of 2000s and has since become a strong presence with his highly charged videos.
Curator at Moderna Museet: Anna Tellgren
Contact: Camilla Carlberg, Head of Learning
In collaboration with Serpentine Galleries.