NOVEMBER 18: Crackhead Barney, Paris Alexander, Ariel Blake & Tony Jenkins

Curated by Nile Harris

Situated around Nile and Malcolm’s emergent art installation. Nile will curate a night of performances of Black artists working in the intersections of poetry, movement, and sound. Continuing on his investigation of the “anti-poetics” of healing. The evening asks what does it take to be okay at the end of the world? And how does coming together provide a balm for our contemporary metaverse of isolation.

ALEXANDER PARIS is a Brooklyn-based performance artist with experience in acting, playwriting, storytelling, standup, drag, design, curation, and creative direction 

CRACKHEAD BARNEY is an American performance artist and ambush interviewer. She shares video of satirical interviews on social media as a viral interview show titled Crackhead Barney and Friends.

NILE HARRIS is a director and curator of live works of art. He has done a few things and hopes to do a few more, God willing.

NOVEMBER 11: Malcom-X Betts, Nile Harris, Raymond Pinto and LAMB

MALCOM-X BETTS is a New York-based visual and dance artist who believes that art is a transformative vehicle that brings people and communities together. His artistic work is rooted in investigating embodiment for liberation, Black imagination, and directly engaging with challenges placed on the physical body.

RAYMOND PINTO At an early age, Raymond has contemplated the nature of the dancing body and its forms that blaze or imprint against our casual aesthetic dimension. Since graduating from the Juilliard School, he continues to pursue a career performing, choreographing, and DJ’ing internationally. His focus now is on creating “thinkspaces” to disseminate theoretical practices via intersectional performance.

NILE HARRIS is a director and curator of live works of art. He has done a few things and hopes to do a few more, God willing.

& LAMB

BriFrei, Meadow Le Elle, & PinkTacos will come together as individuals to accent and celebrate “Black Aesthetics' in Grace Exhibition Space. Forming a collective for the night but these artists are no strangers to collaborating with one another. The curated artists have unique sounds and practices blending Sounds, Vocals, performance and fashion. Compromised of but not limited to dancers, punk vocalists, & rappers. These underground artists are rising to the possibilitie

BRIFREI- Bronx native BriFreí is a performative creator driven by spiritual expansion. Using her performative art practice as a means to maintain physical spiritual and mental health, she creates space for free-flowing movement and intense vocalizations in her works. Art has become her catalyst for transmuting today’s sadness or rage into tomorrow’s imagined acts of love and liberation. Abandoning the idea of limitations, her performances are often fully drenched in her eccentric creations like her handmade garbs & accessories. Whether accompanied by instrumentalists or original sounds, BriFrei’s whimsical & tragic acts invite you on a wild healing experience.

MEADOW LE'ELLE - Meadow Le'Elle is an American vagabond and seeker of obscure sounds. Inspired by their travel, they take the viewer and listener on an intimate journey of syncopated chaos; expressed through operatic punk vocals, textured electronic beats and wild interpretive dance

PINK TACOS - A band, a brand. A representation of freedom and unity, a source of black empowerment, and a highlight for women being the garden of life. The combination of artistry Pink Tacos gather is a source of many different visual influences and genres. The vocalist duo “Proof and Yoda” use an orchestra of producers to get the unique sound they are searching for. Their sound called “rage” is similar to Xxxtentacion’s early releases. These students who mastered the craft and added their own presence to instrumentation are gifted. They’ve toured the east coast and made some stops along the west, and are currently playing locally and gaining traction for their next hit single. /// Subscribe to their Spotify and Apple Music. Would recommend “Pink Gucci”.