SACRED DREAMS OF THE PROMISED LAND
Arthur Jafa, Love is the Message, The Message is Death, 2016
Video Still © Arthur Jafa. Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery
October 5, 2024 - October 26, 2024
Saturdays | 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Queen Rose Art House
843 North Birmingham Place, Tulsa, OK 74110
This program brings together the work of two prolific artists Arthur Jafa and Philip Mallory Jones. Using video collage and a documentary approach, both artists have created moving works about the nuanced Black experience.
Philip Mallory Jones
The Trouble I’ve Seen, 1976, 10 min, color, sound
In Jones’ The Trouble I’ve Seen (1976), he creates a portrait of black rural Georgia, shot in three communities (Woodstock, Jonesboro and Crawfordville) in the hills around Atlanta. Merging oral and visual history, Jones underscores and contextualizes the political and economic realities of African- Americans in the rural South. Recording the everyday life and work of the people, he allows the interplay between image and sound to add emotional resonance. The music — ragtime compositions and a cappella spirituals — provides a counterpoint to the often poignant images and the subjects' voiceover commentaries.
Arthur Jafa
Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death, 2016. 7:25 min, Video, color, sound
In Jafa’s Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death (2016), he presents a nuanced portrait of black life in America, set to Kanye West’s gospel-inspired anthem, “Ultralight Beam”. In a rush of collaged video footage, Jafa points to the ongoing violence against black people that is endemic to U.S. history. He also shows how black Americans have taken these experiences and created cultural, political, and aesthetic achievements that are intrinsic to this country’s identity.
Sunrising | 2024
Architectural resin, aluminum and stainless-steel hardware, motor drive system
6’ x 120’ x 30”
QUEEN ROSE ART HOUSE
Founded in 2021 by interdisciplinary artist Kalup Linzy, the Queen Rose Art House is a social, but critical art space that engages with our local, national, and international art communities. Through hosting events like gatherings, performances, exhibitions, screenings, symposiums, and short term artist residencies, the project is intended to inspire and create a safe space for artists to dwell.
VISITOR EXPERIENCE
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