I have the honor of performing a live sound collage “Three for this awe-inspiring day of programming around Abolition in support of Charles Gaines’ “Moving Chains"'

I’m performing in the 2-5pm block of the afternoon programming around 3/3:30pm

MORE ABOUT THE PROGRAM:

https://creativetime.org/moving-chains-toward-abolition/

TIX: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/moving-chains-toward-abolition-tickets-623788978627

On the occasion of Charles Gaines’s monumental work Moving Chains, Creative Time and Governors Island Arts present a day-long public program on Governors Island bringing together an interdisciplinary group of artists, scholars, and educators working on strategies for abolition in art, law, education, and political action.
 
The day’s workshops, talks, presentations, and walking tour center on the possibilities and limitations of achieving abolition through the law. The contested, moving, and blurred lines between people and property persists today as one of the foundations of racial capitalism, the economic and structural afterlife of slavery. As scholar, and panelist, Saidiya Hartman argues, while discussing the specters of freedom, the political and legal structure of liberty is a permutation of slavery—freedom can never be possessed, only shared. Moving Chains: Toward Abolition offers an opportunity to consider how freedom can be defined outside of the contours of property, considers past examples of movements using the law in the fight for freedom, and ultimately asks whether abolition and the law are compatible or not.
 
Organized by Diya Vij, Curator at Creative Time, with Che Gossett, scholar of abolition and contemporary Black art, co-organizing the session panels; and artist and educator Tiffany Lenoi Jones, co-organizing the drop-in workshops.