The All African People’s Consulate (2024) is a conceptual artwork that is a Collateral Event of the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia The All African People’s Consulate is a functioning consulate for an imaginary Pan-African, Afrofuturist union of countries, promoting cultural and
White Male for Sale (2021) White Male For Sale is a conceptual NFT project. The NFT is a perpetually looped 00:01:10 video of a white male on an auction block on a street corner in a Black neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY. The project incorporates a live
Monument to Stranger in the Village is a community-engaged performance and installation. It was created for the Not Standing in Place, a section of the Zurich Theater Spektakel. The organizers of Not Standing in Place commissioned 11 international artists to write a description of a
On to New Orleans! Freedom or death! We’re going to end slavery! Join Us! Hundreds of reenactors echoed these chants of self-liberated, formerly enslaved people as they marched to seize Orleans territory in 1811. We were performing Slave Rebellion Reenactment (SRR), a community engaged performance spanning
Unchained at Järnvågsplatsen is a site responsive performance that was perfumed in Brunnsparken, small park, central square and transportation hub in Göteborg Sweden. I was wrapped in 75 feet of steel chain. This chain was be attached to two 50 lb jute bags of sugar. I dragged
In Equality (2015) was a performance collaboration between Dread Scott and the Whitney Museum’s Youth Insight Leaders. The objective of In Equality was to create a “social sculpture.” To accomplish this the artists (wearing black t-shirts with the word ‘artist’ stamped across the front in red) approached Whitney Museum
On the Impossibility of Freedom in a Country Founded on Slavery and Genocide (2014) is a performance about the struggle for freedom. People yearn for freedom and have repeatedly struggle against oppressive governments, economic, political and social relations. People have taken great risks in a struggle
Wanted is a community-based art project that address the criminalization of youth in America. It is presented in an art exhibition as well as on the streets of Harlem, New York. It resembles a series of police wanted posters which each features a “police sketch” of
Dread Scott: Decision is a performance that reflects on a country whose democracy is rooted in slavery. These roots are woven into the fabric of the country including in its founding documents. The performance featured three main elements: I read from the text of 1857 Supreme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGUweCOfcVs United We Stand Stand is a performance by Dread Scott and Kyle Goen. In the project, Scott and Goen are vendors operating a stand that sells t-shirt shirts bearing the popular slogan “United We Stand.” The slogan became a rallying cry in the US after the