"Black Vitality: Living with The Sugar Shack" a talk with Derrais Carter, PhD

Please join us for "Black Vitality: Living with The Sugar Shack" with Derrais Carter, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Gender & Women's Studies, University of Arizona

Dr. Carter will talk about his multimedia project, Black Revelry (2022) as well as his curatorial work at Ortuzar Projects related to the work of artist Ernie Barnes opening in late April 2024.

Derrais (sounds like Paris) Carter is an interdisciplinary scholar and artist. His scholarly and creative work plays in the vibrant realms of Black Critical Theory, Black Queer Studies, and Black Popular Culture, Narrative Theory, and Cultural History. Carter has just published Black Revelry: In Honor of the Sugar Shack, a book-album built around Ernie Barnes’ painting The Sugar Shack. Collaborating with writers, visual artists, dancers and a dj, the project delights in how Barnes’ painting reflects and animates various forms of Black social life and intimacy. This project is also the basis for Carter’s limited-run radio show Black Revelry Quiet Storm which aired in Los Angeles, Berlin, and Amsterdam from December 2020 through February 2021. The broadcasts can be found here: gathering| dispersal | frequency. Currently, Carter is completing Marvin Gaye’s I Want You for Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 Series.

Note this event is only open to current NYU students, faculty and staff. If you plan to attend, please RSVP at the link below:

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Wednesday, April 24, 630pm-8pm
181 Mercer Street, Studio H (5th Floor)
Paulson Center

This event is sponsored by Art & Public Policy, the Department of Performance Studies, and the Center for Research & Study.