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Whitney Screens: Theaster Gates

Created as part of a larger project addressing the Black Madonna, this video by Theaster Gates explores the power of her political and spiritual role in Black life, culture, and representation. The video begins with solo and chorus performances by the Black Monks, the Chicago-based group of musicians and singers with whom Gates collaborates. Gospel singing, spiritual gatherings, church testimonials, repeated refrains, and traditional African and contemporary music are layered with political speeches by historic Black leaders and archival images of Black American women in professional and family life in the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s from the Johnson Publishing Company Archive. This fusion of music, performance, archival images, and sound articulates the powerful spiritual, political, and cultural underpinnings of Black American civic life.











When: Fri., Jul. 10, 2020 at 7:00 pm
Where: Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort St.
212-570-3600
Price: Free
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Created as part of a larger project addressing the Black Madonna, this video by Theaster Gates explores the power of her political and spiritual role in Black life, culture, and representation. The video begins with solo and chorus performances by the Black Monks, the Chicago-based group of musicians and singers with whom Gates collaborates. Gospel singing, spiritual gatherings, church testimonials, repeated refrains, and traditional African and contemporary music are layered with political speeches by historic Black leaders and archival images of Black American women in professional and family life in the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s from the Johnson Publishing Company Archive. This fusion of music, performance, archival images, and sound articulates the powerful spiritual, political, and cultural underpinnings of Black American civic life.

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