Barak adé Soleil: the “good” body (Artist’s Lecture)
@ Gallery 400, Lecture Room
400 S. Peoria, Chicago IL
Opening Friday, February 19th, from 2 PM - 4 PM
Presented by Bodies of Work, 3Arts, UIC’s Department of Disability and Human Development, and the Disability Resource Center at UIC, EXPOSURE features the work of the 2015 – 2016 3Arts UIC Fellows, Riva Lehrer, Arlene Malinowski, and Barak adé Soleil. This new series offers insight into the practices of artists exploring the intersectionality between disability, art, and culture. Through this series of programs, EXPOSURE intends to continue the dialogue around issues of disability aesthetics in cross-media artistic modes of production.
The final program in the series features a performative lecture titled the “good” body (Chicago edition) by multidisciplinary artist Barak adé Soleil. This performative lecture is centered within the intersection of disability and race. Through this multifaceted lens, award-winning artist Barak adé Soleil offers personal insights and poetics excavated from his deep engagement with the profound traditions of the African diaspora, disability culture and their interwoven aesthetic; instigating further dialog surrounding the current social and political tensions present today. As a queer disabled artist of color, he is committed to exposing the nuances of the intersectional body as an inherent reflection of humanity; while questioning the historical contexts in which live art is created and interpreted.
To RSVP to the “good” body (Chicago edition) please contact Sandy Guttman, at sguttm3@uic.edu.
The EXPOSURE series is free and open to the public.
ASL interpretation, real-time captioning, audio description and personal assistants will be provided. Gallery 400 is a wheelchair accessible space. Please refrain from wearing scented products.
This series is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts to 3Arts. Bodies of Work and UIC’s Department of Disability and Human Development are proud to partner with 3Arts to present these unprecedented fellowships and public programs in support of disability culture.
Image credit: Barak adé Soleil, Barak with blue bag on back and crutching – from solo dance, “turtle”. Photo taken by Sophie Bufton.
Official Website
More events on this date
Tags: Barak adé Soleil, Dance, Disability Aesthetic, Disability Arts & Culture, intersectionality, multidisciplinary, performance, Performing Arts
« previous event
next event »