Samiya Bashir Reads for Opening of FRAME BY FRAME at Callicoon Fine Arts

NYC event for Field Theories by Samiya Bashir is slated for Thursday May 25th, 2017, 6-8PM @ Callicoon Fine Arts!

Samiya Bashir's reading will kick off FRAME BY FRAME: a group exhibition comprised of works by six artists: Etel Adnan, Cy Gavin, Kahlil Irving, Silvia Kolbowski, Jumana Manna, and Ulrike Müller. The exhibition runs from May 25 to June 25, 2017.

Praise for Field Theories from Publishers Weekly:

"In her third collection, Bashir (Gospel) displays an intriguingly multivalent approach to the objectivities and subjectivities of black experience reflected in her multimedia collaborations. A series of recurring “coronagraphs” become a tunnel through which the figures of John Henry and his wife Polly Ann speak, forming a sonnet crown that brings new life to an American myth. They are interspersed with four sections structured on the laws of thermodynamics and bearing voices of denizens trapped in a capitalist matrix, 'An anthropocene/ of wannabe hepcats' who 'pay// defense department rates/ for a sandwich; unremember// memorable jingles.' Bashir’s experimental visual gestures, such as a bullet-hole riddled prose poem on the law of probability, resonate as bluesy meditations on cosmic entropy’s presence in the irreversible occurrences of American lives."

Event Details:

5/25/17 | 6-8PM | Callicoon Fine Arts | 49 Delancey Street New York, NY 10002