Virtual Tour of Grief and Grievance at the New Museum
Monday, April 26, 7:00PM EST
Join troizel, New Museum Teaching Fellow, for an online conversational tour of selected works in the exhibition “Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America” followed by a conversation with Emily Mello, Associate Director of Education, on approaches to virtual education and engagement.
About the exhibition: From February 17 to June 6, 2021, the New Museum presents “Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America,” an exhibition originally conceived by Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019) for the New Museum, and presented with curatorial support from advisors Naomi Beckwith, Massimiliano Gioni, Glenn Ligon, and Mark Nash. “Grief and Grievance” brings together thirty-seven artists working in a variety of mediums who have addressed the concept of mourning, commemoration, and loss as a direct response to the national emergency of racist violence experienced by Black communities across America. The exhibition will further consider the intertwined phenomena of Black grief and a politically orchestrated white grievance, as each structures and defines contemporary American social and political life.
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troizel, New Museum Teaching Fellow, is a PhD candidate in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University, where they think about black trans avatars as prophets and agents of future world creation after political apocalypse. they are Managing Editor of Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory.
Emily Mello is Associate Director of Education at the New Museum where she directs community partnerships, tour, youth, and educator programs, and organizes an annual residency and exhibition program focused on art, engagement, and social change. Projects include Simone Leigh: The Waiting Room(2016), Paul Ramirez Jonas: Half-Truths(2017), The Black School(2018) and Kameelah Janan Rasheed:Ecosystems (2018), Melanie Crean, Shaun Leonardo, and Sable Eyse Smith: Mirror/Echo/Tilt (2019), and Ensayos: Passages (2020).
*Banner Image: “Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America,” 2021. Exhibition view: New Museum, New York. Photo: Dario Lasagni