Film Details
Student Artist-In-Residence Jeary Payne presents an installation performance film about his mother reciting a poem, by Maya Angelou and his grandfather, retelling the time he traveled to Washington, DC to hear Martin Luther King, Jr speak at the Lincoln monument, 1963, during his grandmother’s 60th birthday celebration in 1995.
It centers on Black Collective Memory, shared histories, the ways in which we all exist within a context, and how memory and story act as markers of time to situate us within that context/lineage in relation to others and worlds (temporalities) around us.
Following the film there will be a brief conversation with the artist.
It centers on Black Collective Memory, shared histories, the ways in which we all exist within a context, and how memory and story act as markers of time to situate us within that context/lineage in relation to others and worlds (temporalities) around us.
Following the film there will be a brief conversation with the artist.
About the Artist
Jeary Payne (He/Him) is a third-year graduate student at Columbia University, pursuing a Master’s degree in Oral History.
Who will tell the stories after us? — is an essential question that serves as a guiding principle for Jeary's work as he explores the ways in which grief, loss and absences as well as love, time, space and memory interplay with each other through a Black visual lens and performance.
Who will tell the stories after us? — is an essential question that serves as a guiding principle for Jeary's work as he explores the ways in which grief, loss and absences as well as love, time, space and memory interplay with each other through a Black visual lens and performance.
Location
Movement Lab
Milstein Center LL020
3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
Image: Courtesy of the artist