Artist:Rashaad Newsome
Medium: Video installation: video, color and sound
Dates:2014
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Accession Number: 2018.49
Image: 2018.49_view01_SC.jpg,Timestamp: 00:07
Catalogue Description: A spectacular short video “Knot” (3:45) shows fragmentary figures floating, twerking, and dancing in a variety of constructed spaces. The work references baroque architecture, hip-hop culture, and black and LGBTQ subcultures and highlights desire, capitalistic obsessions, and systemic oppressions. Newsome shows a keen awareness of art historical and alternative cultural sources to offer pointed commentaries on contemporary culture and identity politics.