Performance-in-Place: Waste of a Nation by Baseera Khan, 10/27
Image courtesy of the artist. Privacy Control at BRIC Arts Media Brooklyn, live performance and climb, October 9, 2019. [Image Description: Artist Baseera Khan sits on the floor of a gallery space and wears black headphones, a black long-sleeved shirt, black pants, and gray and lime green socks. Surrounding her are objects including boots, tennis shoes, sandals, and an iphone.]
Tuesday, October 27, 6pm EST
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Access Information: This performance includes live ASL interpretation and captioning.
Reflecting on months spent in the confines of her own home and studio, which morphed into classroom, disco, and café, Baseera Khan will present multiple performance personae, code switching between personalities to deconstruct contemporary notions of cancel culture, the appropriation (and re-appropriation) of language, recently heightened awareness of race’s intersections with class and the environment, and how cultural capital gain can come from both source and colonizer. Khan’s performance will be followed by a discussion prompted by Rubin Foundation Director Sara Reisman.
Baseera Khan is a New York-based visual artist who sublimates colonial histories through performance and sculpture in order to map geographies of the future. Khan opened their first solo exhibition at Simone Subal, New York and a two-person show at Jenkins Johnson Projects (2019). They have exhibited in numerous locations such as Sculpture Center (2018), Aspen Museum (2017), Participant Inc. (2017), Moudy Gallery at Texas Christian University (2017), Fine Arts Center of Colorado College (2018), and has performed at several locations including Whitney Museum of American Art and Art POP Montreal International Music Festival. Khan was an Artist-in-Residence at Pioneer Works (2018-19) and Abrons Art Center (2016-17), was an International Travel Fellow to Jerusalem/Ramallah through Apexart (2015), and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2014). Khan was a recipient of the BRIC Colene Brown Art Prize and the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant in 2019, was granted by both NYSCA/NYFA and Art Matters in 2018. Their works are part of several public permanent collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim, Kadist, San Francisco, and the Walker Art Center, MN. Khan is published in 4Columns, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, Art in America, BOMB, Brooklyn Rail, and TDR Drama Review. She received an M.F.A. from Cornell University (2012) and a B.F.A. from the University of North Texas (2005).