Rashaad Newsome

Videos:  Rashaad Newsome (USA)

In cooperation with the donaufestival, Galerie Stadtpark will show film and videography works by Rashaad Newsome, in which the artist conceives the body as a socio-culturally coded carrier of signs, in the exhibition, “Shade Compositions”. In his videos and performances, Newsome explores the mimetic, gestural and linguistic articulation vocabulary of African-American women. He analyses physical expressions in order to make a sophisticated repertoire of spontaneous forms of articulation observable and decipherable. The stigmatised sign language – as a form of expression of social minorities – is specifically decontextualised, deconstructed and concentrated into a complex structure of repetitive performance samples and loops. Newsome’s works not only raise questions of minority and alterity. His performances and films, which deal with the self-reproducing codes of social and ethnic groups, reveal themselves to be complex explorations of social belonging and cultural diversity.

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Thu 28/4 from 6.30 – 10.00 pm
Fri 29/4 and Sat 30/4 from 6 – 10 pm
Thu 5 - 7/5 from 6 - 10 pm