Black Spatial Relics Residency

The residency is called the Black Spatial Relics Residency.  It addresses the history of slavery and contemporary issues with equality through performance art.  I found this work to be important because I personally believe that performance art has not spread through the Black community in the way that it should have been.  There are so many people in the art world who do not understand or care for performance art but there is still a struggle to get the Black community to comprehend the use for art degrees.  The artists in residence for this project are to pay close attention to the slave trade and the negative impact it left upon the Eastern seaboard of our nation.  The group will congregate at The Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University.  The university if in Rhode Island and the piece will take place in October of this year. The artists will be in residence for three days in October at the university and then for a week again in May of 2017.