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Join us on December 20th LIVE from NYC for tour #152. Together, we explore urgent work by Lorraine O'Grady.
In her landmark performance Art Is . . . Lorraine O’Grady (she/her) entered her own float in the September 1983 African-American Day Parade, riding up Harlem’s Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard (Seventh Avenue) with fifteen collaborators dressed in white.
Displayed on top of the float was an enormous, ornate gilded frame, while the words “Art Is…” were emblazoned on the float’s decorative skirt. At various points along the route, O’Grady and her collaborators jumped off the float and held up empty, gilded picture frames, inviting people to pose in them. The joyful responses turned parade onlookers into participants, affirmed the readiness of Harlem’s residents to see themselves as works of art, and created a record of the people and places of Harlem some thirty years ago.
In this tour, we embark on some close looking.
Together, we ask: What do you see?
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Unlike a typical museum/gallery tour here, it's not about us; we are more interested in you: your thoughts and your ideas. Never repeated and uniquely yours, our interactive and explorative video tours typically last 90 minutes and are facilitated LIVE by your interpretative guides.
Focusing on contemporary art, we aim to explore some of today's most pressing issues - bringing thoughts, feelings, and observations into a lively and sometimes challenging exchange.
A global community of museum professionals, artists, students, makers, and members of the public awaits.As always, all our events are FREE to attend & are never recorded. Every Wednesday, we schedule online events and broadcast LIVE at 7p ET/ 4p PT from Brooklyn, New York.
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About Lorraine O’Grady (she/her).
For more than four decades, Lorraine O’Grady (b.1934) has challenged cultural conventions. Her multidisciplinary practice utilizes the diptych as both a tool for institutional critique and a conceptual framework to interrogate Western society. As she argues, “With the diptych, there’s no being saved, no before and after, no either/or; it’s both/and, at the same time.” Insisting on both/and, for O’Grady, the diptych presents a constant exchange between equals, forwarding “miscegenated thinking” by eroding hierarchical oppositions. This thinking, which seeks to confront the limitations of a culture built on exclusivity and resistance to difference, advocates for concepts like hybridity, gender fluidity, and process rather than resolution.
About your facilitator Mark (he/they).
Mark is an cultural engagement and museum curation professional with a 10+ track record of driving and creating compelling virtual programs, boosting community engagement, and developing world-class exhibits that impact diverse audiences.
Mark is a proud member of the 🌈 LGBTQQIP2SA+ community and an advocate for the transformative power of art and culture for all.
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