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There Are Black People In The Future: Community OpenMic Response _ East Liberty
“Friends and neighbors of East Liberty, join us to show support for this billboard message by Alisha Wormsley. Yes, the billboard is coming back up, but that's not enough! We want to build our own future, we are tired of living and dying by developers' whims.
Acknowledging that black people exist should NEVER be a controversial message. As advocates for housing justice, we recognize that the complaint against this billboard by East Liberty Development Inc is part of their ongoing efforts to gentrify our neighborhood. The same efforts that got the Penn Plaza apartments torn down, the same pressure that got the Shadow Lounge closed. And yet, ELDI claims they speak for "individuals of color" in the neighborhood. This is unacceptable.
Our collective outcry got the billboard put back up, but why should we protest only after something we love is destroyed? Resident voices, black voices, working class voices, need to be centered in decisions about what happens to our neighborhood, BEFORE things like this happen. We deserve a real community development organization, for us, by us. So join us on Friday, as we fight for this!
This event is a place for you to speak, share art, share stories related to our cause. Please contact us for more info- [email protected]. “
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Here it is! Repost from @wpadc • TOMORROW! The Closing Discussion for ‘Black Women as/and the Living Archive’ with artist-curator @tsedaye featuring @alishabwormsley @lisaeverything @maisonlafleur @jamilaraegan @thefreeblackwomenslibrary @autkni @jasminehearncollaborates. Saturday, June 13 from 6-8pm EST. LINK IN BIO ❤️ . #alishawormsley #ingridlafleur #lisaeharris #autumnknight #jamilaraegen #olaronke #jasminehearn #tsedayemakonnen #jordanmartin #thereareblackpeopleinthefuture #afrofuturism #thefreeblackwomenslibrary #fbwl #memory #archive #film #library #blackmotherhood #Blackwomenartists #performanceart #dance #movement #scifi #nkjemisin #pleasureactivism #childrenofnan . . Design by @rheagenk // 📷 by @alishabwormsley & @jamilaraegan https://www.instagram.com/p/CBWlbJ0JM8o/?igshid=8wqp34g8uccp
#alishawormsley#ingridlafleur#lisaeharris#autumnknight#jamilaraegen#olaronke#jasminehearn#tsedayemakonnen#jordanmartin#thereareblackpeopleinthefuture#afrofuturism#thefreeblackwomenslibrary#fbwl#memory#archive#film#library#blackmotherhood#blackwomenartists#performanceart#dance#movement#scifi#nkjemisin#pleasureactivism#childrenofnan
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Alisha B. Wormsley, There Are Black People in the Future (billboard), 2018
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@ayanahsphere in front of her gorgeous wall drawing unveiled today at the house of mana. This along with other performances was part of the closing reception today! Thank you again @alishabwormsley @thecmoa #pittsburgh #homewood #thepeoplearethelight#alishawormsley #ayanahmoor (at House of Manna Faith Community)
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Don’t tell anytone about the cult ! – An interview with Lisa Harris & Alisha Wormsley
We met Lisa Harris and Alisha Wormsley at Studio XX on a cold and windy day and asked them to talk about their creative process as individuals and as a team, but also about their past and current work. Here’s what they told us:
On their creative paths …
Lisa: I started singing in the opera when I was 8. It changed my life immediately. I had no attachment or goal, love or lust for the arts. But when I started doing it, I realized that I really liked it. There were a lot of adults around, with more oversight of “she should do this”, kind of carving a path for me. When it came time for me to revolt, I wanted to take this voice that until this point I was strategically taught to esteem more than any other part of myself and use it to esteem something different.
Alisha: I was always really good at arts and always creative. My mom is like a black Martha Stewart! We were always crafting things around the house. I studied cultural anthropology and I thought I was going to make documentaries, so I went to Cuba where I was supposed to document a conference. We went to this artist community an hour away from Santiago and I ended up staying there for 6 months! Cuba was my art school, as officially I didn’t go to an art school.
I definitely have more freedom. My training is not nearly the same as Lisa’s but I was definitely trained to think about things in a certain way, to create concepts in a certain way.
I make films like I make collages. I’m a collage artist, so I make films in layers.
On what science-fiction allows…
Alisha: A lot of my work is about the 4th dimension and time – so, everything that happened in the past, will happen in the future and is happening in the present. When people tell stories, they mesh memories up together. Science-fiction is very appealing to me because I have so much freedom to mesh every memory. Science-fiction has always been able to dwell into the actual issues of things, it’s almost like cover.
Children of NAN is about black women and white men being at war. There’s definitely some social, racial, gender issues in there. I always think that black women and white men are the beginning and the end of everything. Lisa says they’re like the 0 and 1 in computer language. They’re symbols.
On the institution of opera…
Lisa: In the 50s, is was very fashionable for every opera house to have a singer of color. They were like trophies. It was almost like we pressurised this organic material through this machine and then we have one thing left. All my life I had a feeling of pride for black people. Coming from a classic classist kind of identity comparison, we’ve done everything!
On working together…
Alisha: We get the reaches that we both want to. I’ve always collaborated but I’ve never really valued collaboration until I collaborated with Liz because we’ve been collaborating for such a long time. It’s easier.
We have to say less. It’s awesome.
Lisa: We deal a lot with universal themes. We can creatively, through our different and shared background, explore those universal themes. The huge part is how we are both here and in the same time and space. That actually makes all of us now the same. Things that we get to work with in installation and performances together. I think a lot about the differences between this idea of one and this idea of two. And how big a difference that is and what is in that space.
Alisha: We’re always kind of in the same place. It’s very easy for me to be visual with her. Most of our projects overlap in so many ways. We are women. We’re black women. We’re strong and creative. A lot of our ideas evolve around that.
** Alisha and Lisa will be giving a workshop at Studio XX tonight at 7. Everyone’s invited and it’s free (!). Check out the details here.
See more of their creative work and views in their exhibition PROOF and the roundtable conversation Afro to the Future!
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Interview by Amanda Clément & Tara Ogaick
#zerofuture#hmtlles#afrofuturism#lisaharris#alishawormsley#studio xx#art#science fiction#proof#enertia#opera
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Miss me with that. Repost from @tsedaye • Stills from the last few seconds of ‘Cry of the Third Eye: The Last Resort’ by @lisaeverything Lisa E. Harris. Link in Bio. @wpadc // www.wpadc.org . . . #curatorialproject #cryofthethirdeye #lisaeharris #alishawormsley #tsedayemakonnen #opera #film #archives #houston #pittsburgh #dc #blackamerica #afrofuturism #blackwomen #artists https://www.instagram.com/p/CAOG4mApI9e/?igshid=1o8y8o65rpjpu
#curatorialproject#cryofthethirdeye#lisaeharris#alishawormsley#tsedayemakonnen#opera#film#archives#houston#pittsburgh#dc#blackamerica#afrofuturism#blackwomen#artists
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Outside of @ricardoiamuuri installation watching a performance by Stacey pearl and her dancers for the closing of #thepeoplearethelight #alishawormsley #thecarnegiemuseumofart #homewood (at Homewood)
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The people are the light : the beauty box presents “RECYCLE RENEW RELEASE” this Saturday October 14th,2017 at 6pm. @dskinsel and @anthonylovejoy give us a insightful performance for one of the beauty box last events !! Please don’t miss this ! 617 N. Homewood ave. #thepeoplearethelight #thebeautybox #pittsburgh #homewood #alishawormsley #roberthodge #performanceart (at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
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Artist and designer #juneseale dropped knowledge on saving money, her previous life of being a Wall Street giant and her current life as a working artist . She is pure energy and light ! We appreciate her taking out time ! #thepeoplearethelight #thebeautybox #alishawormsley #roberthodge #homewood #pittsburgh #juneseale 📷 by @angelomaggio (at Homewood)
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📷by @affrilachianwoman! Front display on the beauty box takes a excerpt from Marianne Williamson poem “our deepest fear”#thepeoplearethelight #thebeautybox #alishawormsley #roberthodge #homewood #pittsburgh
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@latikaann with her fam and models for today’s fashion show at the beauty box . 📷 by @alishabwormsley #thepeoplearethelight #thebeautybox #alishawormsley #roberthodge #homewood #pittsburgh (at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
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The Beauty Box will be open from 10am-4pm sat and sun but we have a special event happening from 6pm-8pm. Designer and artist Latika Ann will have a fashion show with her new collections and we are having a artist talk with designer and former Wall Street mogul June Seale ! 617 N. Homewood Ave . 6pm-8pm (free) #thepeoplearethelight #alishawormsley #thebeautybox #roberthodge #pittsburgh #homewood #fineart #thecarnegiemuseumofart (at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
#thepeoplearethelight#thecarnegiemuseumofart#fineart#thebeautybox#roberthodge#alishawormsley#pittsburgh#homewood
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Today has officially launched "Black Unicorn Project" at the beauty box here in homewood . @sweet_thunda hosts a pop up reading room celebrating Black women, queer and trans authors! Come by today and every Wednesday to check out books or just read . #thepeoplearethelight #homewood #pittsburgh #beautybox #alishawormsley #carnagiemuseumofart #houston #roberthodge #installationart #socialpractice #everywednesday (at Homewood)
#installationart#homewood#houston#roberthodge#socialpractice#pittsburgh#everywednesday#thepeoplearethelight#alishawormsley#carnagiemuseumofart#beautybox
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