Chapter 1 – North Star: Conversations on Boundlessness – Welcome Remarks and "Questions of Material Cosmology" Panel Discussion

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

       
     
Chapter 2 – North Star: Conversations on Boundlessness – performance by vocalist Liz Gre

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

       
     
Chapter 3 – North Star: Conversations on Boundlessness – "Lost (here, not here, everywhere)" Panel Discussion

"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

       
     
Chapter 4 – North Star: Conversations on Boundlessness – Towards a Black Mirror: Reading by Victoria Adukwei Bulley

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

       
     
Chapter 5 – North Star: Conversations on Boundlessness – “The Presence of Play” Panel Discussion

"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

       
     
Chapter 6 – North Star: Conversations on Boundlessness – “Anomaly and the Ineffable Self” Panel Discussion

"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

       
     
Chapter 7 – North Star: Conversations on Boundlessness – performance by Sarah Ortegon Highwalking

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

       
     
Chapter 8 – North Star: Conversations on Boundlessness – “What Makes Us?” Panel Discussion

"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