Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica
Dec 2024
The Art Institute of Chicago
TBM Project Management (Outlining, Budgeting, Technical Drawings, Lead Technician) and Installation of 16 TBM Artworks (Digital Projectors, CRT TV, Flatscreen Displays, Sound Installations, Reel-to-reel Tape Machine, QSYS/Dante) | Media Player/System Programming (BlackMagic Hyperdeck, BrightSign, Arduino, Node-red, QSYS) | Leading team of (2-6) freelance technicians
Curators: Antawan I. Byrd and Matthew S. Witkovsky
As the first major exhibition to survey Pan-Africanism’s cultural manifestations, Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica gathers together some 350 objects, spanning the 1920s to the present, made by artists on four continents: Africa, North and South America, and Europe. Panafrica, the promised land named in the exhibition title, is presented as a conceptual place where arguments about decolonization, solidarity, and freedom are advanced and negotiated with the aim of an emancipatory future.
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Azikiwe Mohammed, My First Time (Feat. Makaya McCraven), 2019 - ongoing. Photo: Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
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Edith Dekyndt, Ombre Indigène, 2016. Photo: Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
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Ilana Harris-Babou, Reparation Hardware, 2018. Photo: Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
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Liz Johnson Artur, Untitled, 2016. Photo: Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
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Dawit L. Petros, Notations for a New Pan-Africanism, 2013. Photo: Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
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Precious Okoyomon, Reading to Plants, 2020. Photo: Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
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Coco Fusco and Paula Heredia, The Couple in the Cage: Guatinaui Odyssey, 1992. Photo: Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
