IHGC Race & Performance Lab Presents Experimental Performance

Student Workshop: Experimental Beat Making, Poetry, and Improvisation

Wednesday, April 9th :: 12:30-2pm :: Multicultural Center

This will be a workshop with world-renowned musicians and performers Nicole Mitchell, JoVia Armstrong, Damon Locks, S. Ama Wray, Josh Kun, and Joshua White. Participants will be invited to learn about and create experimental art that can address the politics of race, the environment, and musical practice. No experience necessary.

Panel Discussion: Race and Experimental Performance

Thursday, April 10th :: 12:30PM - 2PM :: Wilson 142

This will be a panel discussion featuring musicians, performers, and writers: Nicole Mitchell, JoVia Armstrong, Damon Locks, S. Ama Wray, Josh Kun, and Joshua White, who will discuss their histories and strategies of creating experimental art that confronts social ills and reimagines the Black experience.

Spider Web

Thursday, April 10th :: 7:00pm :: The African American Heritage Center (2nd Floor of the Jefferson School, 233 4th St, NW, Charlottesville, VA 22903)

In a collaborative piece originally commissioned by Clockshop, composer/flutist Nicole Mitchell and scholar Josh Kun explore visionary/reflective glitches between 1970s and pre-apocalyptic Southern California in an exploration of race and the politics of human life. Spider Web is fictionally based on Mitchell's own history of moving to Anaheim as a young girl, and her experiences with racism in the bright glare of suburban California sunshine. With glimpses into a future climate meltdown through her mother's communication with the spirit world, the piece uses music and text to explore Mitchell's family history within the context of Southern California's ongoing history of Black musical radicalism and experimental musical thinking. This piece is born of Mitchell and Kun's mutual interests in music as a language of social reckoning and social action, and music as a way of coming to grips with the limits and possibilities of place.

The performance is FREE but you must REGISTER to reserve your seat.

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The Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures (IHGC) is the humanities center at the University of Virgina. We are an inclusive space that celebrates the humanities as the source of deep and sustaining knowledge that teaches us what it means to be human across the myriad scales of relationality, from the local to the global.