Drawing its title from musician Yves Tumor's song of the same name, Gospel For A New Century is an atemporal portal highlighting the detritus of US interventionism, both domestic and abroad. It’s a collaboration between Kearra Amaya Gopee and Cameron A. Granger. Visitors will be granted access to a different archive each day, providing small, timed windows into a number of redacted and distorted histories.
As a part of the project the artists will be hosting an hour long radio show via zoom where they will play anti-imperialist and anti-interventionist tunes, with an open line for anyone that would like to call in and air out their frustrations with the United States. Times and dates are below:
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Zoom Info for Radio Hour #1
Wednesday 25th @ 3:30PM EST
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Zoom Info for Radio Hour #2
Friday 27th @ 3:30PM EST
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About the Artists:
Kearra Amaya Gopee is a multidisciplinary visual artist from Carapichaima, Trinidad and Tobago, based in Los Angeles, CA. Their research based practice focuses on the nature of violence and erasure, and the particularities of those that are inflicted on the Caribbean and its diasporas by the global north. Using lived experiences as a point of departure, they address themes of migration, intergenerational trauma, queerness, difference and healing. While complicating the viewer's understanding of economic and social marginalization in the region, their practice also desires to test the mettle of these frameworks. Through their interventions, they aim to temper what we have known to be true with the potential of intuitive knowledges that have been historically cast aside in favour of Western assimilation.
They hold a BFA in Photography and Imaging from New York University and are an alum of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Currently, they are a MFA candidate at University of California, Los Angeles.
Cameron A. Granger came up in Cleveland, Ohio alongside his mother, Sandra, inheriting both her love of soul music, and habit of apologizing too much. A 2017 alumni of the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, he uses his work to negotiate the growing privatization of the public imagination. His recent projects include “The Get Free Telethon” a 24 hour livestream community fundraiser sponsored by Red Bull Arts, “Pearl” a body of collaborative works with his mother at Ctrl+Shft in Oakland, and “A library, for you” a traveling community library most recently housed at ikattha project space in Bombay, India