Welcome Remarks by Jordana Leigh, Vice President Artistic Programming at Lincoln Center and Kambui Olujimi, Artist and Creator of North Star: Conversations on Boundlessness at The David Rubenstein Atrium, Lincoln Center, October 7-8, 2023.
"Questions of Material Cosmology" Panel Discussion
Moderated by Siddhartha Mitter
Panelists: artist Sanford Biggers and physicist Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Contemplate the cosmos with us. How do we articulate our experience through material choices? How do we explore, observe, and analyze our universe?
North Star: Conversations on Boundlessness
Brooklyn native and visual artist Kambui Olujimi invites you to a two-day symposium inciting provocations at the boundaries of science and art. Over the last four years, Olujimi has worked on a transmedia project entitled North Star that recontextualizes sites of blackness and Black bodies within history, science, and contemporary art. North Star subverts notions of a Black body constructed from the "inescapable" gravity of oppression and instead explores the innate state of Black Rhapsody and asks; “What does the Black body look like in zero gravity?” This two-day symposium is an artist convening that will create discourse intersecting with concepts and theories of the North Star Project. The symposium includes panel discussions with leading artists, scientists, and scholars; performances by poets, musicians, and dancers; and the world premiere screening of Olujimi's North of Never film. This gathering will function as a site of liberatory exploration, concentrated curiosity, serious play and other paradoxes of creative inquiry.
North Star: Conversations on Boundlessness
Conceived and Organized by Kambui Olujimi
Commissioned by Lincoln Center for The David Rubenstein Atrium on October 7-8, 2023.
Commissioner Jordana Leigh Vice President, Artistic Programming at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Generous support by Mellon Foundation
Produced by Shane Aslan Selzer
Camera and Editing by Sam Clegg
Performance by vocalist Liz Gre
North Star: Conversations on Boundlessness at The David Rubenstein Atrium, Lincoln Center, October 7-8, 2023.
Brooklyn native and visual artist Kambui Olujimi invites you to a two-day symposium inciting provocations at the boundaries of science and art. Over the last four years, Olujimi has worked on a transmedia project entitled North Star that recontextualizes sites of blackness and Black bodies within history, science, and contemporary art. North Star subverts notions of a Black body constructed from the "inescapable" gravity of oppression and instead explores the innate state of Black Rhapsody and asks; “What does the Black body look like in zero gravity?” This two-day symposium is an artist convening that will create discourse intersecting with concepts and theories of the North Star Project. The symposium includes panel discussions with leading artists, scientists, and scholars; performances by poets, musicians, and dancers; and the world premiere screening of Olujimi's North of Never film. This gathering will function as a site of liberatory exploration, concentrated curiosity, serious play and other paradoxes of creative inquiry.
North Star: Conversations on Boundlessness
Conceived and Organized by Kambui Olujimi
Commissioned by Lincoln Center for The David Rubenstein Atrium on October 7-8, 2023.
Commissioner Jordana Leigh Vice President, Artistic Programming at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Generous support by Mellon Foundation
Produced by Shane Aslan Selzer
Camera and Editing by Sam Clegg
"LOST (here, not here, everywhere)" Panel Discussion
Moderated by Yasi Alipour
Panelists: Amaryllis R. Flowers, artist Christopher Myers, and linguist X’unei Lance Twitchell
Discuss uncharted spaces of self-description through language, dance, mythology, and the internet. Can we know ourselves completely, or are we discovering as we build? When are we bigger than our field of view?
North Star: Conversations on Boundlessness
Brooklyn native and visual artist Kambui Olujimi invites you to a two-day symposium inciting provocations at the boundaries of science and art. Over the last four years, Olujimi has worked on a transmedia project entitled North Star that recontextualizes sites of blackness and Black bodies within history, science, and contemporary art. North Star subverts notions of a Black body constructed from the "inescapable" gravity of oppression and instead explores the innate state of Black Rhapsody and asks; “What does the Black body look like in zero gravity?” This two-day symposium is an artist convening that will create discourse intersecting with concepts and theories of the North Star Project. The symposium includes panel discussions with leading artists, scientists, and scholars; performances by poets, musicians, and dancers; and the world premiere screening of Olujimi's North of Never film. This gathering will function as a site of liberatory exploration, concentrated curiosity, serious play and other paradoxes of creative inquiry.
North Star: Conversations on Boundlessness
Conceived and Organized by Kambui Olujimi
Commissioned by Lincoln Center for The David Rubenstein Atrium on October 7-8, 2023.
Commissioner Jordana Leigh Vice President, Artistic Programming at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Generous support by Mellon Foundation
Produced by Shane Aslan Selzer
Camera and Editing by Sam Clegg
Towards a Black Mirror: Reading by poet Victoria Adukwei Bulley
North Star: Conversations on Boundlessness
Brooklyn native and visual artist Kambui Olujimi invites you to a two-day symposium inciting provocations at the boundaries of science and art. Over the last four years, Olujimi has worked on a transmedia project entitled North Star that recontextualizes sites of blackness and Black bodies within history, science, and contemporary art. North Star subverts notions of a Black body constructed from the "inescapable" gravity of oppression and instead explores the innate state of Black Rhapsody and asks; “What does the Black body look like in zero gravity?” This two-day symposium is an artist convening that will create discourse intersecting with concepts and theories of the North Star Project. The symposium includes panel discussions with leading artists, scientists, and scholars; performances by poets, musicians, and dancers; and the world premiere screening of Olujimi's North of Never film. This gathering will function as a site of liberatory exploration, concentrated curiosity, serious play and other paradoxes of creative inquiry.
North Star: Conversations on Boundlessness
Conceived and Organized by Kambui Olujimi
Commissioned by Lincoln Center for The David Rubenstein Atrium on October 7-8, 2023.
Commissioner Jordana Leigh Vice President, Artistic Programming at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Generous support by Mellon Foundation
Produced by Shane Aslan Selzer
Camera and Editing by Sam Clegg
"The Presence of Play" Panel Discussion
Moderated by Naomi Beckwith, Chief Curator and Deputy Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Panelists: artist Nayland Blake and writer Louis Chude-Sokei Consider how play expands the human condition/experience, and serves as a technology for resistance and expression.
North Star: Conversations on Boundlessness
Brooklyn native and visual artist Kambui Olujimi invites you to a two-day symposium inciting provocations at the boundaries of science and art. Over the last four years, Olujimi has worked on a transmedia project entitled North Star that recontextualizes sites of blackness and Black bodies within history, science, and contemporary art. North Star subverts notions of a Black body constructed from the "inescapable" gravity of oppression and instead explores the innate state of Black Rhapsody and asks; “What does the Black body look like in zero gravity?” This two-day symposium is an artist convening that will create discourse intersecting with concepts and theories of the North Star Project. The symposium includes panel discussions with leading artists, scientists, and scholars; performances by poets, musicians, and dancers; and the world premiere screening of Olujimi's North of Never film. This gathering will function as a site of liberatory exploration, concentrated curiosity, serious play and other paradoxes of creative inquiry.
North Star: Conversations on Boundlessness
Conceived and Organized by Kambui Olujimi
Commissioned by Lincoln Center for The David Rubenstein Atrium on October 7-8, 2023.
Commissioner Jordana Leigh Vice President, Artistic Programming at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Generous support by Mellon Foundation
Produced by Shane Aslan Selzer
Camera and Editing by Sam Clegg
"Anomaly and the Ineffable Self" Panel Discussion
Moderated by Sandra Jackson-Dumont, Director and CEO, Lucas Museum of Narrative ArtPanelists: artist Arthur Jafa and writer J WorthamExplore the role of glitch and anomaly in articulating the unknowable self.
North Star: Conversations on Boundlessness
Brooklyn native and visual artist Kambui Olujimi invites you to a two-day symposium inciting provocations at the boundaries of science and art. Over the last four years, Olujimi has worked on a transmedia project entitled North Star that recontextualizes sites of blackness and Black bodies within history, science, and contemporary art. North Star subverts notions of a Black body constructed from the "inescapable" gravity of oppression and instead explores the innate state of Black Rhapsody and asks; “What does the Black body look like in zero gravity?” This two-day symposium is an artist convening that will create discourse intersecting with concepts and theories of the North Star Project. The symposium includes panel discussions with leading artists, scientists, and scholars; performances by poets, musicians, and dancers; and the world premiere screening of Olujimi's North of Never film. This gathering will function as a site of liberatory exploration, concentrated curiosity, serious play and other paradoxes of creative inquiry.
North Star: Conversations on Boundlessness
Conceived and Organized by Kambui Olujimi
Commissioned by Lincoln Center for The David Rubenstein Atrium on October 7-8, 2023.
Commissioner Jordana Leigh Vice President, Artistic Programming at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Generous support by Mellon Foundation
Produced by Shane Aslan Selzer
Camera and Editing by Sam Clegg
Performance by dancer Sarah Ortegon Highwalking
North Star: Conversations on Boundlessness
Brooklyn native and visual artist Kambui Olujimi invites you to a two-day symposium inciting provocations at the boundaries of science and art. Over the last four years, Olujimi has worked on a transmedia project entitled North Star that recontextualizes sites of blackness and Black bodies within history, science, and contemporary art. North Star subverts notions of a Black body constructed from the "inescapable" gravity of oppression and instead explores the innate state of Black Rhapsody and asks; “What does the Black body look like in zero gravity?” This two-day symposium is an artist convening that will create discourse intersecting with concepts and theories of the North Star Project. The symposium includes panel discussions with leading artists, scientists, and scholars; performances by poets, musicians, and dancers; and the world premiere screening of Olujimi's North of Never film. This gathering will function as a site of liberatory exploration, concentrated curiosity, serious play and other paradoxes of creative inquiry.
North Star: Conversations on Boundlessness
Conceived and Organized by Kambui Olujimi
Commissioned by Lincoln Center for The David Rubenstein Atrium on October 7-8, 2023.
Commissioner Jordana Leigh Vice President, Artistic Programming at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Generous support by Mellon Foundation
Produced by Shane Aslan Selzer
Camera and Editing by Sam Clegg
"What Makes Us?" Panel Discussion
Moderated by Jasmine Wahi, Founder and Co-Director of Project for Empty SpacePanelists: architect Amina Blacksher, crafter Azikiwe Mohammed, and artist Hank Willis ThomasTogether, we challenge the notion of a singular and self-contained individual. This collection of thinkers offers an extended view of the self through entanglement theory, kinetic intelligence, and community action.
North Star: Conversations on Boundlessness
Brooklyn native and visual artist Kambui Olujimi invites you to a two-day symposium inciting provocations at the boundaries of science and art. Over the last four years, Olujimi has worked on a transmedia project entitled North Star that recontextualizes sites of blackness and Black bodies within history, science, and contemporary art. North Star subverts notions of a Black body constructed from the "inescapable" gravity of oppression and instead explores the innate state of Black Rhapsody and asks; “What does the Black body look like in zero gravity?” This two-day symposium is an artist convening that will create discourse intersecting with concepts and theories of the North Star Project. The symposium includes panel discussions with leading artists, scientists, and scholars; performances by poets, musicians, and dancers; and the world premiere screening of Olujimi's North of Never film. This gathering will function as a site of liberatory exploration, concentrated curiosity, serious play and other paradoxes of creative inquiry.
North Star: Conversations on Boundlessness
Conceived and Organized by Kambui Olujimi
Commissioned by Lincoln Center for The David Rubenstein Atrium on October 7-8, 2023.
Commissioner Jordana Leigh Vice President, Artistic Programming at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Generous support by Mellon Foundation
Produced by Shane Aslan Selzer
Camera and Editing by Sam Clegg