Exploring the Nowannago: Kentifrican Modes of Resistance
with Tyler Matthew Oyer and The Kevin Robinson Ensemble (KREation)
Getty Museum, Los Angeles
August 25, 2015
Friday Flights
Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle presents Exploring the Nowannago: Kentifrican Modes of Resistance with Tyler Matthew Oyer. In this provocative performance, Hinkle creates tension with a double-noose tug-of-war, exploring a narrative from a geography called "Kentifrica," an unknown continent and culture that serves as a meditation upon what can and cannot be mapped when dealing with the ramifications of identity. As part of Hinkle's ongoing artistic navigation of the "historical present," this performance is offered as a metaphor for how residue of the past remains chained to today, impacting the treatment of bodies deemed "other." Performed for the first time with live music accompaniment by The Kevin Robinson Ensemble (KREation), Hinkle’s performance abstractly confronts a multi-faceted set of contemporary issues from the Black Lives Matters Movement, human trafficking, LGBTQ+ awareness, immigration reform, prison reform, white supremacy, genocide, xenophobia, and more.
