Saturday Session 1: Shaun J. Wright
January 22, 12pm–6pm
512 West 19th Street
Timed tickets: sliding scale: $5-$15*
From 3-4pm, join Wright and moore in conversation at the bar, in response to E. Patrick Johnson's E. Patrick Johnson's 1998 essay "Feeling the Spirit in the Dark: Expanding Notions of the Sacred in the African-American Gay Community."
As part of madison moore's Nightlife-in-Residence, set into Sadie Barnette's The New Eagle Creek Salon. Learn more about both residencies and how they intersect below.
*Timed tickets grant entry at the top of each hour. Entry is not guaranteed at times other than your selected ticket time.
The Kitchen, in collaboration with The Studio Museum in Harlem, presents Sadie Barnette’s The New Eagle Creek Saloon, the first East Coast institutional presentation of the artist’s installation reimagining the first Black-owned gay bar in San Francisco. Established by the artist’s father, Rodney Barnette, founder of the Compton, CA chapter of the Black Panther Party, the New Eagle Creek Saloon (operated by Barnette between 1990–1993) offered a safe space for the multiracial queer community who were marginalized in other social spaces throughout the city. Within and in response to the installation, The Kitchen launches its first-ever nightlife and club culture residency, from cultural critic, DJ, Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, and author of Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric (Yale University Press, 2018) madison moore.
These artists’ visions come into lyrical and urgent intersection across the installation (January 18–March 6), with four daytime Saturday Sessions DJ sets scheduled on January 22 (with Shaun J. Wright), February 5 (with Nita Aviance), February 19, and March 5 (DJs for these dates to be announced); and programs such as new media screenings, performances, talks, and other social events throughout. (Ticketing and visitor information below). In the periods where Barnette’s installation is not programmed, recordings from previous presentations will be played. These sonic activations gesture toward the ongoing endurance of queer histories and hold space for the somatic archives of disappeared or lost queer space over time.
Tickets to the next Saturday Session with Nita Aviance will be available on Monday, January 24.
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