Chantel Kimoi Davis
Chantel Kimoi Davis
In Our Heads About Our Hair - Trailer
Directed by Hemamset Angaza
Photography: Regine Romain
Let’s Stay Together
Sandra Nkaké sings Candy Says (The Velvet Underground).
Nothing For Granted (2012)
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Elizabeth Axtman
Elizabeth Axtman is an American photographer and video artist whose work explores race in American culture.
Elizabeth Axtman is a performance artist who works collaboratively with The Love Renegade in themes of love and forgiveness. She received her BA from San Francisco State University in 2004 and completed her MFA at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2006.
Where’s The Party At?
2006
3min.
Statement: The piece itself is a satirical approach to the idea of “wholeness” [or purity] and who has the right to claim such a thing. It’s an exercise in the ridiculous, and about claiming a heritage that belongs to me by birthright even though it is on both sides of the burning cross.
Mother Won’t Understand
Mother Won’t Understand (detail)
2008
Mixed Media
11 x 17
Mother Won’t Understand
2008
Mixed Media
11 x 17
Gaby (Fashion shoot in New York), 2010
Photography: Cedric Smith
8 Women • Developed by Joy Conway
8 Women is collective performance piece and exploratory sister circle for woman of diverse backgrounds including ethnicity, religion, class, gender expression, sexual orientation, politics and other identities. It is an eight week process culminating in a community presentation of our stories as women through body movement, song/chant, monologue/dialogue, poetry and image. The goal is to create and share new, original works on womanhood. The process is about giving voice and expression to our unique womanly experiences; it is about healing and establishing strong bonds as sisters. 8WOMEN is a sacred space where we get to safely explore our wondrously beautiful selves within community.
Director: Terrance Nance
Artist Statement: The work that I have been doing for the last few years is at its base self portraiture about vulnerability, the fragility of perception, and self awareness. Using performances, song, environments, video, re-enactments of events, relationships, and dreams, I attempt to reconstruct my identity in moving images. My process is very internal and is principally concerned with mining a universal truth out of personal and seemingly mundane experiences. Additionally, the films and installations I’ve made recently explore, just below their surface, the idea of a self determined image of African maleness, an almost absurd idea in the western world. This image is a collage of myself, my uncles, my brothers, my father, and is constructed without fear of romanticization or cultural supremacy.
Most recently, as an artist working in the tradition of the feature film format, my work weaves together documentary, fiction, animation, movement, and sound into a formal space elastic enough to accommodate the narrative oddness of real life. Showing the work to audiences in a theater is a way of formalizing my experiences and consecrating the most affecting of them. I’m justifying the validity of my existence and those like me by retelling my most personal of narratives.
Terrance Nance currently lives between New York City He received his M.F.A. from New York University
