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Black Earth Study Club: Land as Verb with Andros Zins-Browne, Kyle Mays, Quito Swan, Saba Innab, and Zoé Samudzi

Please join us for the final convening of the Black Earth Study Club, a series of transdisciplinary programs informed by Nolan Oswald Dennis’s exhibition, overturns, which weaves together artistic, scientific, and philosophical approaches to explore the material and metaphysical conditions of decolonization.

Concluding the public program series, this event departs from photographer Santu Mofokeng’s proposition to consider land as a verb instead of a noun. Foregrounding this renewed orientation to land as a kind of geo-politics, scholars Kyle Mays and Quito Swan, artist and architect Saba Innab, and critic Zoé Samudzi will offer critical explorations of land dispossession and the historical and contemporary intimacies between struggles for self-determination across Africa, Europe, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas.

The afternoon will culminate in a performance on SI’s rooftop led by artist Andros Zins-Browne. Zins-Browne’s work, ground above world (after H), extends his inquiry into the relationships between bodies and ecology through an abstract language of gestures, materials, and spoken words that reflect on Blackness, property, and landlessness.

Please RSVP to rsvp@swissinstitute.net.











When: Sat., Apr. 12, 2025 at 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Where: Swiss Institute
38 St. Marks Pl.
212-925-2035
Price: Free
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Please join us for the final convening of the Black Earth Study Club, a series of transdisciplinary programs informed by Nolan Oswald Dennis’s exhibition, overturns, which weaves together artistic, scientific, and philosophical approaches to explore the material and metaphysical conditions of decolonization.

Concluding the public program series, this event departs from photographer Santu Mofokeng’s proposition to consider land as a verb instead of a noun. Foregrounding this renewed orientation to land as a kind of geo-politics, scholars Kyle Mays and Quito Swan, artist and architect Saba Innab, and critic Zoé Samudzi will offer critical explorations of land dispossession and the historical and contemporary intimacies between struggles for self-determination across Africa, Europe, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas.

The afternoon will culminate in a performance on SI’s rooftop led by artist Andros Zins-Browne. Zins-Browne’s work, ground above world (after H), extends his inquiry into the relationships between bodies and ecology through an abstract language of gestures, materials, and spoken words that reflect on Blackness, property, and landlessness.

Please RSVP to rsvp@swissinstitute.net.

Buy tickets/get more info now