Storyhouse + Grandma Present I [AM THE AMERICAN] DREAM Performance & Panel

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Storyhouse + Grandma Present I [AM THE AMERICAN] DREAM Performance & Panel

Storyhouse, Grandma, and The Kwame Brathwaite Archive present "I DREAM" performance by Daniel Tyree Gaitor-Lomack + panel during Frieze LA.

By Grandma

Date and time

Starts on Saturday, February 18, 2023 · 7pm PST

Location

Storyhouse Foundation

245 North Vermont Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90004

Agenda

7:00 PM - 7:45 PM

Performance | Daniel Tyree Gaitor-Lomack's I [AM THE AMERICAN] DREAM

8:00 PM - 8:45 PM

Panel | Land, Photography, Performance: Generational Space

About this event

As part of Frieze LA 2023, Storyhouse partners with the curatorial collective Grandma and the Kwame Brathwaite Archive to present a dynamic night of programming on Saturday, February 18 at 7PM. The night includes a performance by artist Daniel Tyree Gaitor-Lomack titled "I [AM THE AMERICAN] DREAM" followed by a panel featuring Gaitor-Lomack, Amelia Williamson, Donna Stewart-Mitchell, Kwame S. Brathwaite, and Tia Oso that interweaves themes of archives, land, and resistance.

Parking is limited. Uber, Lyft, or carpooling is highly recommended. The front entrance to the building is on Vermont Ave.

7PM PERFORMANCE

Acclaimed LA-based artist Daniel Tyree Gaitor-Lomack debuts "I [AM THE AMERICAN] DREAM", a three-part performance that navigates and shapeshifts structures built to reinforce the status quo. The omitted words in the title, “AM THE AMERICAN,” become synonymous with the System, and in each performance the physicality required—to game, change, or scale a system that isn’t made to fit—is palpable. Throughout the series, Gaitor-Lomack explores what it takes to cross those words after ‘I’ to arrive at the ‘DREAM.’

8PM PANEL

Moderated by Grandma, artists and community come together to discuss history-restorative threads—through land, photography, and performance—that connect generations and leverage art for justice. Set at Storyhouse LA, a space known for narrative change, the individuals on the panel, such as Donna Stewart-Mitchell, Kwame S. Brathwaite, and Daniel Tyree Gaitor-Lomack, stand as bulwarks against a history of erasure. Donna Stewart-Mitchell is an Angeleno matriarchial leader who has survived waves of gentrification and displacement. As part of one of the first Black families to own property in Venice Beach, her land and family’s continued presence in Venice preserves that history of Venice as an epicenter of Black culture, fashion, and art. Kwame S. Brathwaite as the Director of the Kwame Brathwaite Archive collaborates closely with his father, Kwame Brathwaite, and his father’s legacy to uplift the story of how Brathwaite’s photography popularized the political slogan “Black Is Beautiful.” The work of the Archive is dedicated to telling the history of a key, but under-recognized, figure of the second Harlem Renaissance. In his performance “Change in the Hood,” artist Daniel Tyree Gaitor-Lomack stands on the shoulders of previous generations by creating art in conversation with David Hammons’ “In the Hood” works. His performance, which symbolically employs a hood from a hoodie as a basket to catch coins, is a tribute to the power of art. Art in various forms is a powerful social tool and opportunity to remain in conversation with one another across generations.

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS

Storyhouse is a global member-based platform; connecting BIPOC creatives, artists and thought leaders through space, experience and story. Curated and impact-focused, Storyhouse offers members cultural programming & connections to like-minded culture-shapers focused on global storytelling. Since launching in 2021, the community has grown to 5000+ creatives; having collaborated with the likes of Alicia Keys, Swizz Beatz, Donald Glover and organizations such as the United Nations and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. In 2022, Storyhouse celebrated the opening of their first home, a private members-space, in Los Angeles.

Grandma, a curatorial collective founded by Paige Haran and Rebecka Jackson, is committed to leveraging art for justice and to creating spaces for artists and patrons to engage with social justice efforts. Their exhibitions, programs, and charitable art auctions provide a platform for artists to use their art to comment on sociopolitical issues and to advocate for community organizers. The collective has facilitated exhibitions and programs around the world for organizations such as The Getty, Frieze, The Phillips Collection, Hawai’i Triennial, Artsy, Comme des Garçons, Google, and the World Bank Group.

The Kwame Brathwaite Archive, a 501(c)3, was established to preserve the works of photographer Kwame Brathwaite and to further his mission to show "the beauty of our people" and to preserve black culture. With a career spanning over six decades, Brathwaite became known as the "Keeper of the Images". His archive documents the history of African and African American culture, throughout the diaspora. With a global reach and a focus on the intersection of politics, fashion, music and activism, his work provides a view into history that is vital to the present day conversation around equity and empowerment. The goal of the organization is to preserve, educate and elevate. In doing so the Archive aims to serve as a source of education while continuing to inspire the next generation of creators in whatever form they choose to empower others.

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