Cauleen Smith
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Cauleen Smith at IFFR
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Crow Requiem
Smith brings together the forced migration of birds, the treatment of people of colour and Syracuse’s connection to the birth of stereoscopic
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Solar Flare Arkestral Marching Band
A flash-mob performance of Sun Ra’s anthem Space Is the Place, performed by The Rich South High School Marching Band.
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Pilgrim
A recording of a piano performance by Alice Coltrane guides Cauleen Smith through three sites of creativity and generosity across the USA.
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Three Songs About Liberation
Reading as a radical act. Cauleen Smith stages three readings of excerpts from Gerda Lerner’s book Black Women in White America.
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Lessons in Semaphore
A silent film celebrating dialogue. Choreographer Taisha Paggett dances on a grassy empty lot in Chicago, communicating in semaphore.
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Sojourner
Set in Noah Purifoy’s Outdoor Desert Art Museum, artist Cauleen Smith re-imagines this unique space as a radical feminist utopia.
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Chronicles of a Lying Spirit by Kelly Gabron
Speaking through her alter ego and a male voice, Cauleen Smith’s biography contrasts semi-true fiction with media representation.
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Black Utopia LP
A constellation of sounds, images and histories from research into Sun Ra, Afrofuturism and the African diaspora is brought together in this slide-
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Space Station: Rainbow Ihnfinity
A nod to Sun Ra’s obsession with rainbows, this installation places living plants, theatrical furniture and a rainbow mural in an ‘arke
