Opening Reception May 10 6:00-8:00PM

On View

Friday, May 17th: 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Saturday, May 18th: 10:30-6:00 p.m. 
*MFA Cohort Final Critique 11 a.m. 
Facilitated by Glenn Goldberg with QC faculty members and alumni 

*MUSIC DAY
4:15-5:00pm Interactive Sound Session: “Respond” - Led by Chi-Chi Glass and Eugenie Chao.
This is an experimental sound session where participants will be invited to play with some ceramic and non-ceramic sound making objects and instruments as a group. All are welcome. No musical knowledge required.

5:15-5:45pm *Ocarina Workshop (Session 1) ~ Led by Eugenie Chao
Learn how to make a ceramic musical instrument (ocarina) and how to play! No musical experiences required. 

5:45-6:15pm *Ocarina Workshop (Session 2) 

*Ocarina workshop space is limited - kindly RSVP eugenieychao@gmail.com. However, I will do my best to accommodate.

Friday, May 24th: 12:00-6:00 p.m.
Saturday, May 25th: 1:00-7:00 p.m. 

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Thursday, May 30th: CLOSING EVENT
RSVP: SHOOK WORLD BUILDING (05.30.24)

PTP Archival Coalition presents SHOOK WORLD BUILDING on Thursday, May 30, 7:00-10:00pm

SHOOK WORLD BUILDING is a live show & tell event around KING VISION ULTRA's SHOOK WORLD.

brandon king and timmhotep aku will host a discussion with GENG PTP (aka KVU) and fellow SHOOK WORLD guest collaborators on the process of making this work and its various components be they audio, visual (music videos, album art and design), literary (liner notes) or material (crewneck shirt, CD, cassette, etc.).

SHOOK WORLD will be used as a template for "community as praxis."

07:00 - 07:30 ||| welcome / space opening

07:30 - 09:30 ||| conversation + Q&A

This is a FREE event. Your RSVP ensures you a spot since seats are limited.

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Curated by David Lisbon

Honestly brings together the sculptures, sounds, paintings, installations, and moments cultivated by the Queens College Studio Art MFA cohort. The works, materially and experientially, explore what is known and possible when the truth belongs to whoever needs to be doing the telling. If honesty is the best policy then policy is not a governing force, but instead a sense of language that we rely on when we need to find our way.

Work by Steve Blum

Work by Natalie Raskin

Work by Brandon King

Work by Bryan Fox

joy, endurance, water & memory.. (2023)

Director: Brandon King

joy, endurance, water & memory.. (2023) is a VR short exploring resilience and joy under seemingly omnipresent conditions mired in despair. Through ritual, reverence, play, and sharing space with community, our human and non-human relatives, within and as a part of the earth’s ecology, king examines how these practices act as healing modalities to sustain one’s spirit amidst the ever-present destructive rationale of the world we live in and systems we live under. The impact of this rationale is still very present and alive in Wilmington and these genocidal cultural logics shape how people relate to one another. king’s first immersion into this realm, has been distilled into his first VR short. Record Warped on.tha Daily (2022) shares and exposes history about the Daily Record, a Black owned newspaper publication run by Alexander Manly, was ransacked and burned to the ground during the massacre or Coup of 1898. With a high probability and fear of being lynched, Manly managed to escape town with his life.

Here, in king’s second VR film, joy, endurance, water & memory.. (2023), lies an offering, examining an existence under dominant, destructive forces, tapping into life-affirming, non-genocidal intergenerational cultural practices and logic rooted in right relations with nature; some practices channeled through memory, while others iterated or created, which help to sustain and may be necessary to endure, survive, transform and thrive.