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This event is free to attend. Registration is required for attendance.
In the talk, titled “Black Resilience,” the audience will be given a video tour of the exhibit that opened in New York on Feb. 27 while Black Reconstruction Collective (BRC) members discuss concepts and themes in the works they created for the show.
According to MoMA, the commissioned pieces “explore how people have mobilized black cultural spaces, forms and practices as sites of imagination, liberation, resistance, and refusal.”
Mario Gooden , founding principal of Huff + Gooden Architects and Portman Prize Studio Critic, is a co-founder of the BRC, which has been giving virtual lectures together at universities and institutions around the nation on issues surrounding racial injustice and Black history since the fall.
Along with Gooden, who is also an Associate Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University, co-director of the GSAPP Global Africa Lab, and a research associate at the Visual Identities in Art and Design (VIAD) research centre at the University of Johannesburg, the BRC is comprised of: