Black Creatives - Visual Art

Black creatives will come together to share their motivations and experiences of storytelling through different media. What does it mean to break into established art spaces? How do we create new spaces rooted in the multitude of different Black experiences? What are the secrets to using visibility in performance to take up space and how can each of us find our own authentic creative expression? This panel discussion will look at the complexities, joys, and challenges of making a mark as a Black creative.

Panelist
Mercy Thokozane Minah, is a queer, non-binary multi-disciplinary artist. They live in South Africa and have created work across visual, literary and performance related mediums.IG: @iamafreedom

Panelist
Sonia E Barrett performs Composites of plants, animals, elements and people to create interventions that presence their objectification and commodification, she also thinks about how to change perceptions of phenomena in “nature” that are a given. The work seeks to create new questions where there was a kind of certainty that has to do with the hegemony of normative western European values.

IG: @soniaelizabethbarrett

Panelist
Ayo Aloba is a Vienna based Nigerian actor, percussionist, music producer and co-founder of the electronic group and label Afroschnitzel.  He studied performing arts at the Rose Bruford College in the United Kingdom and has made extensive appearances on the stage and screen.  In 2011 he wrote, starred and directed his first short film, Spiral, which won the Texas Short Film Black Festival. Under Ayotheartist guise he focuses on alternative medium of visual expression specifically digital collage. Identity, culture and politics are deconstructed and playfully reimagined. 
Ayotheartist’s work has featured on : Soundframe, Area For Virtual Arts, Ars Electronica, Okayplayer, Abuja Arts Nigeria and World Design Week , to name a few.

©Photography Portrait by Lisa Frantz
Collage Artwork:Artist :Ayotheartist Titel :Eroding Pillars Of BlackYear:2019
Links:Instagram.com/ayotheartistwww.afroschnitzel.orghttps://ayotheartist.bandcamp.com/
www.pariwo-records.club www.civa.at
Press:https://www.viennawurstelstand.com/article/the-auslander-project-ayo-aloba/

https://www.musicaustria.at/london-war-mein-musikalisches-erwachen-ayo-aloba-afroschnitzel-im-mica-interview/

https://augustin.or.at/man-darf-nicht-unterschaetzen-wie-essenziell-kreativitaet-ist/

19:00 – 19:05: Welcome
19:05 – 19:15: Panellists introductions
19:15 – 20:00: Panel
20:00 – 20:20: Q&A
20:20 – 20:30: Thank You & Wrap Up

Photo by Ezekixl Akinnewu from Pexels