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JULY 2025: “maybe you can go and hook up with the people” a deep study session at the poetry project:

This session will chart a geography of political undergrounds as a location of language and possibility. Departing from a close reading of Chapter 16 from Assata Shakur's autobiography which describes her journey underground, we will consider ways of being and moving that require being unseen — together we will write, remember, and notice some paths hidden in plain view. Is a political underground possible in our age of digital surveillance and location-sharing? Is it desirable? Could you find your way to it? What and who would meet you there?

MARCH 2025: DELTAIC LISTENING, with Ryan C. Clarke for LIVING EQUIPMENT presented by Triple Canopy and Rivers Institute

For DELTAIC LISTENING, Ryan C. Clarke will present an unorthodox account of New Orleans jazz, tuning in to the sounds of the city’s distinctive shotgun houses and wetlands, which have provided Black residents with means of congregation as well as concealment. Drawing on sonic artifacts, colonial-era architectural plans, oral histories, and geological research, Clarke will connect the cultural and material conditions of life in New Orleans to the evolution and dispersion of contemporary electronic music. Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts will respond with thoughts and sounds related to her ongoing trilogy of books on African-American utopias, tracking the movement of people and music from Haiti to New Orleans and beyond.

You can find Ryan & Sharifa’s conversation archived at Berlin’s Cashmere Radio here, along with the rest of the six-part series.

LIVING EQUIPMENT was a series of listening sessions, conversations, and performances devoted to minor histories and radical resonances of Black electronic music with Ryan C. Clarke, presented with Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought. Moving between DJ mixes, discussions, archival recordings, and personal histories, Clarke and his collaborators trace the migrations and mutations of Black music, emphasizing the role of geography in forming and circulating the cultural traditions that birthed techno and house. The series treats Black music and speech as “equipment for living,” to quote the critic Albert Murray: “stylistic codes for representing the most difficult conditions, but also … a strategy for living and triumphing over those conditions with dignity, grace, and elegance.”

NOVEMBER 2024:“A New World View” published as the lead essay in RICHARD MAYHEW: WATERCOLOR

Venus Over Manhattan presented Richard Mayhew: Watercolor, the first exhibition in over two decades dedicated exclusively to the artist’s remarkable work in watercolor, and the first presentation of Mayhew’s work since his passing in September 2024 at the age of 100.
The exhibition followed the gallery’s 2023 presentation, Richard Mayhew: Natural Order, by shifting the focus exclusively to watercolor—an under-known yet deeply significant aspect of Mayhew’s practice. Known for his atmospheric “mindscapes,” Mayhew’s work in watercolor reveals the same nuanced sensitivity to color and form that characterizes his broader practice and highlights the unique qualities of the medium itself. Richard Mayhew: Watercolor underscores the breadth of his creative evolution, showcasing never-before-seen works and demonstrating how, even late in life, Mayhew continued to push the boundaries of his art.

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