HOWDOYOU-SAYYAMINAFRICAN?
Fri, Mar 7, 2014
1 pm
HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN?, Good Stock on the Dimension Floor: An Opera, 2014. Video, color, sound; 54 minutes. Collection of the artists. © HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN?
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Whitney Museum Second Floor (Kaufman Astoria Studios Film and Video Gallery)
HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN? debuts a film reimagining the traditional opera to pose a central question: “What happens to the black body when it is haunted by a ‘blackness’ outside of it?” The spoken, chanted, sung, and screamed libretto explores the consequences of centuries of global racial strife that are thrust upon on those born of African descent.
March 7
1 pm
March 8–9
11 am
Free with Museum admission. Admittance is on a first-come, first-seated basis until capacity is reached.
