July 2024 Studio Updates!
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👋🏽 Hello July! 🥵
🖤[July 13 — Solo Exhibition, Performance, Book Launch, and Workshop] i want to climb inside every word and lick the salty neck of each letter @ REDCAT (Los Angeles, CA, until August 11)💃🏽 [July 15 - 21 — Teaching] ICI - centre chorégraphique national de Montpellier/Occitanie x Bennington College (Montpellier, FR)
🎲 [July 27 - Solo Project, Event] — the soft technology of your poems split — s My body into 18: secreting,100 Stanzas ——— That Bow TOWARD no moons (@ Ulises in Philadelphia, PA, until August 25)
🔲 [July 27 - Solo Exhibition] — that is complete. and knowledge is another (@NOME Gallery, Berlin, DE, until July 27)
📙 Orange Tangent Study’s website is updated with new testimonials and a description of past and current clients.
🐙[July 31 - Application Deadline] The Little Octopus 🐙 School: Clarice Lispector Class
1. 👋🏽 Hello July! 🥵
This month starts with me in Turkey. I will travel extensively after that before spending my birthday month working on a project in the High Desert region.
My favorite photo from the end of June:
My favorite photo from the start of July:
— July 13, 2024
🖤 [July 13 — Solo Exhibition, Performance, Book Launch, and Workshop] i want to climb inside every word and lick the salty neck of each letter @ REDCAT (Los Angeles, CA, until August 11)
🖤 Exhibition Information 🖤 up August 11, 2024 🖤
My show i want to climb inside every word and lick the salty neck of each letter at REDCAT, closes August 11th. I am returning to Los Angeles on July 13th for:
Performance — The First Contact: Kameelah Janan Rasheed premieres The First Contact, a new lecture performance that stages a speculative conversation between Clarice Lispector’s Água Viva, Roland Barthes’ The Pleasure of the Text, and unfinished essays by the artist. Each of the texts considers erotic experiences with reading and writing as corporeal and mystical encounters. In the performance, Rasheed will use Python, a programming language, to reorganize, or “braid,” individual sentences from each author into an algorithmically determined poetic composition.
Book launch for rub, lick, drink, eat — my 7th artist publication! — and my second under my imprint, Scratch Disks Full.
A constrained-writing workshop at LACA: In this workshop, participants will write in the shape of their surroundings, and build language inflected by objects, architectures, their environments, and their anecdotal memory of the past. Participants will also be invited to work collaboratively and create a one-page book of scores to contribute to LACA and take home.
If you are in Los Angeles, please come out. All my shows are important to me—all for specific reasons. This show is important because it opened a year and three days after the passing of my late grandmother, Berthenia Allen — my fierce Leo matriarch.
— July 15 - 21
3. 💃🏽 [Teaching] ICI - centre chorégraphique national de Montpellier/Occitanie - direction x Bennington College (Montpellier, FR)
In mid-July, Yuchen Chang and I are back in Montpellier, France teaching our third year of “Languaging the Contemporary” with the MFA Dance department with the University of Arts (now via Bennington College after the University of Arts abruptly shut down on June 7)
— July 27
4. 🎲 [July 27 - Solo Project, Event] — the soft technology of your poems split — s My body into 18: secreting,100 Stanzas ——— That Bow TOWARD no moons (@ Ulises in Philadelphia, PA, until August 25)
🎲 Project Information 🎲 up August 25, 2024 🎲
I am excited to head back to Philly at the end of July for Game Night, a day of game design and game-making at Ulises.
— July 27, 2024
5. 🔲 [July 27 - Solo Exhibition] — that is complete. and knowledge is another (@NOME Gallery, Berlin, DE until, July 27)
🔲 Exhibition Information 🔲 up July 27, 2024 🔲
— July 2024
6. 📙 Orange Tangent Study Website Updates
— July 31, 2024
7. 🐙 [July 31 - Application Deadline] The Little Octopus 🐙 School: Clarice Lispector Class
📝 🐙 Enrollment applications are due July 31, 2024!
As I noted in Saturday’s newsletter, I quietly launched an itinerant, ambient, and occasionally location-bound school for my other obsessive and greedy little learners. The Little Octopus 🐙 School has mapped out its next season, and we are starting with our dear Clarice Lispector. See below:
Thank you for reading,
Kameelah 👽
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