Sarah Cooper is a curator, writer, and art historian based in Los Angeles.
She is the Public Programs Specialist for performance at the J. Paul Getty Museum, where she directs the experimental performance series Ever Present, among other programs.
She has organized programs featuring artists and musicians including Kim Gordon, Simone Forti, Brendan Fernandes, Patti Smith, Lonnie Holley, Martin Creed, Midori Takada, Helado Negro, Moor Mother, David Wojnarowicz, Derek Jarman, and Solange Knowles.
In addition, Sarah has held positions at The Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Royal Academy in London, and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.
She holds a Master's Degree in Art History from Hunter College, New York. Her thesis, Expanding Experimentalism: Popular Music and Art at the Kitchen in New York City, 1971-1985, explores the creative output of artists' bands and the relationship between popular music and avant-garde performance practices.
sarahannecooper [at] gmail.com
She is the Public Programs Specialist for performance at the J. Paul Getty Museum, where she directs the experimental performance series Ever Present, among other programs.
She has organized programs featuring artists and musicians including Kim Gordon, Simone Forti, Brendan Fernandes, Patti Smith, Lonnie Holley, Martin Creed, Midori Takada, Helado Negro, Moor Mother, David Wojnarowicz, Derek Jarman, and Solange Knowles.
In addition, Sarah has held positions at The Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Royal Academy in London, and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.
She holds a Master's Degree in Art History from Hunter College, New York. Her thesis, Expanding Experimentalism: Popular Music and Art at the Kitchen in New York City, 1971-1985, explores the creative output of artists' bands and the relationship between popular music and avant-garde performance practices.
sarahannecooper [at] gmail.com
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.
