The Radical Black Art and Performance Series at Contemporary Art Galleries continues!
2/17/2021
Performance Screening: The Sis Uprising by Arien Wilkerson and David Norrori
4:30pm – 5:30pm
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Arien Wilkerson (They/she) is a Philadelphia based gender fluid black queer choreographer, performer, video/photo, sculpture and installation artist. Born and raised in Hartford CT. Wilkerson is the founder of Tnmot Aztro, a collaborative multidisciplinary company.
Event Description: The Sis Uprising, a conceptual Black spectacle on COVID-19, the protests, and the interwoven legacies of race, gender, sexuality and Black queer artistic insurgency. As Wilkerson writes in their “A sissifesto,” featured below, “The sis uprising is a visual aggregate, collective showing of the disconnection between realities and moments, present presences and parallel futures. I’m interested in adding to the narrative of what more do we do or what less do we do after all is said and done. The character is time. Not displaying time nor depicting time but abstractedly wearing time as skin. Whose skin is time in?”
For more information, contact: Luke Seward at luke.seward@uconn.edu