EHCN's logo which has an abstracted 'E' with a grey 'H' inside of it. Alongside this, is the text Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network.
EHCN's logo which has an abstracted 'E' with a grey 'H' inside of it. Alongside this, is the text Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network.

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of things not seen

Student-led

of things not seen explores the relationship between Blackness, bodily practice, and the limits of the archive through an artist-led curriculum of movement workshops, performance actions, and ephemeral installations by artists Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and Steffani Jemison. This project considers the capacity of oral and bodily practices—movement, spoken language, and memory—to archive and record accounts of Black life and collective memory that have been excluded from Western memory institutions or erased from official archives. of things not seen argues that despite the absences of Black experience in mainstream textual and photographic archives, an account of Black life nonetheless persists through a repertoire of embodied, oral, and memory practices. In this moment of increased awareness and activism around the vulnerability of and violence perpetrated against Black bodies, this project asks what it means to locate the body as an archive of cultural knowledge and fugitive agency. Accordingly, this series of workshops and actions seeks to shift the terms of what is taken up as a record and as knowledge by emphasizing the capacity for embodied and ephemeral practices to render evidence of things not seen. April 3 – May 30, 2021

Curated by Gee Wesley

Exhibiting Artists:

Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste

April 3 - 18, 2022

Kameelah Janan Rasheed

April 23 - May 9, 2022

Steffani Jemison

May 14 - May 30, 2022

Part of

2021 Graduate Student Exhibitions and Projects

of things not seen was made possible by the generous support of the Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, NOME, Berlin, the Center for Experimental Humanities at Bard College and EHCN, sponsored by the Open Society University Network.

of things not seen exhibition entrance wall text: slightly blue title text and white body text on a black wall
Lines of dark gray paint on a clear, plastic sheet with clear plastic legs. It is a sculpture, the paint appearing three dimensional.
Two paintings, side by side: one like an abstract back with a protruding spine, made of a few thick lines. The other is inky: white, black and slate curving lines and puddles.
A long room with a projector on a conference table with chairs. It projects a white screen with black notes and geometric shapes. On the walls are prints of shadowy figures in black and white and orange.
A white wall and three white, rectangular slabs on the floor. The slabs and three sections of the wall are painted with simple, black symbols (all abstract: circles and lines, a hook shape).