My Pressure Suit: A Presentation and Dialogue With Dark Matter
@ Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
Opening Monday, July 8th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
SHORT PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Likening the feeling of marginalization and othering in a Black femme body to being adrift in outer-space, Kamilah Rashied’s autobiographical work, My Pressure Suit, examines through prose, poetry and short stories, what it means to carve out a space where one can fully appear despite the mechanisms of erasure. In its ninth iteration of public presentation, this ongoing “program in progress” lives in conversation with the aspiration for transcendence and healing inherent in the Dark Matter exhibition.
SHORT BIO
Kamilah Rashied is a performance artist, writer, educator, producer, and arts administrator. A double alumnus of DePaul University receiving a BFA in performance at the Theater School and an MFA in arts leadership, their work is itinerant, community centered and socially concerned, often leaving the more conventional confines of creative space, (both literally and figuratively). Kamilah has contributed to the development of new and ongoing projects at many venerable arts and culture organizations across Chicago including: the Art Institute of Chicago, the School at the Art Institute, Chicago Park District, Chicago Public Library, Chicago Public Schools, Illinois Humanities, Rebuild Foundation, Open TV, Young Chicago Authors, Chicago Shakespeare Theater and Victory Gardens Theater.
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