DREAD SCOTT: THE POWER OF RESISTANCE Curated by Anna Mecugni
Sat, Oct 12
|U.N.O. St. Claude Gallery
Opening reception: Saturday, October 12, 6:00–9:00pm Opening dates: October 13–December 1, 2019 Opening hours: Saturday & Sunday, 12:00–5:00pm
ON VIEW
Oct 12, 2019, 6:00 PM – Dec 01, 2019, 9:00 PM
U.N.O. St. Claude Gallery, 2429 St Claude Ave, New Orleans, LA 70117, USA
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Political, radical, incendiary—such has been Dread Scott’s artistic practice for the past thirty years, with works that bridge art and activism by intimately connecting the visual with the social. Through mediums ranging from street performance to video, photography, and printmaking, Dread Scott confronts injustices head-on, raising the urgent question of social responsibility.
Curated by UNO Assistant Professor of Art History Anna Mecugni, The Power of Resistance brings together a selection of prints and video works from the past fifteen years. It features posters from the ongoing Statements series, begun in 2018, and videos including Welcome to America (2004), Money to Burn (2010), and Stop (2012), which denounce the underlying racism, xenophobia, and downright absurdity of common, legal practices in today’s profit-driven, de-humanizing capitalist societies.
With this exhibition the UNO St. Claude Gallery pays tribute to the artist and his six-year-long, large-scale, community-engaged project Slave Rebellion Reenactment, about to culminate,…