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Lecture-Performance with Kameelah J. Rasheed
Learn with our visual artist in residence!
February 27 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Join our artist in residence Kameelah J. Rasheed in a lecture-performance workshop conducted at Emerson College.
In this lecture performance, Rasheed will offer a live annotation of her 2024 keynote lecture at the CODEX Foundation conference. In this live annotation, Rasheed will respond to past and future versions of herself in conversation with ideas of translation, wayward writing, and Lucille Clifton’s spirit writing.
This event is proudly supported by Emerson College’s Public Art Think Tank (PATT)
Location is Room 202, Walker Building, 120 Boylston St. Boston, MA 02116. Registration is required for guests without an Emerson ID. Register for this free workshop over here.
About Kameelah Janan Rasheed
A learner, Kameelah Janan Rasheed explores writing practices across all species, states of living, states of consciousness, and substrates. Curious about the poetics and possibilities of loss, ruin, and failure in the reading and writing process, Rasheed explores Black knowledge production and fugitivity. She creates sprawling, “architecturally-scaled” installations; public installations; publications; prints; performances; performance scores; poems; video; and other forms yet to be determined. Most recently, she is a recipient of a 2023 Working Artist Fellowship; a 2022 Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research; a 2022 Creative Capital Award; a 2022 Artists + Machine Intelligence Grants – Experiments with Google; and a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts.
Her recent solo exhibitions include KW Institute of Contemporary Art (2023), Art Institute of Chicago (2023), and Kunstverein Hannover (2022). In 2024, she will have a solo exhibition at REDCAT (Los Angeles, CA). Rasheed is the author of five artists’ books: in the coherence, we weep (KW Institute, 2023); i am not done yet (Mousse Publishing, 2022); An Alphabetical Accumulation of Approximate Observations (Endless Editions, 2019); No New Theories (Printed Matter, 2019); and the digital publication Scoring the Stacks (Brooklyn Public Library, 2021). She is an adjunct instructor at the Cooper Union and Barnard College, a Critic at Yale School of Art, Sculpture, and an instructor at the School for Poetic Computation. Rasheed founded Orange Tangent Study, a consulting business that provides artist microgrants and supports individuals and institutions in designing expansive and liberatory learning experiences.
Rasheed is represented by NOME Gallery in Berlin, Germany.