Tuesday November 12th, 2024
queens college
klapper hall
4th floor
opening reception
6PM – 7PM
listening session
with subt.le, a²z & YATTA
conversation with timmhotep
followed by Mellissa Lyde (DJ)
7PM – 10PM
brandon king is a dj/sound-selector, multidisciplinary artist, from the Atlantic Ocean by way of Hampton Roads VA. his Queens College MFA Thesis show, sankofa ripples freedom fancy, is an exploration of the various dimensions of time, labor, ecology, myth, and the afterlives of enslavement. Creating installations exploring African diasporic identities, brandon’s intention is to honor his ancestors’ stories, through archival and found materials, sound collages, painting, film, sculpture and other forms. his sound project subt.le is interested in taking people on audio-visual journeys, complimenting and juxtaposing sonic vibrations within a curated and cultivated physical space. In making, his labor is dedicated to enabling expansiveness and time-travel, conjuring pathways through an unrepressed spectrum of joy and despair. brandon aims to honor his ancestors that comfort him from those vast waters yet rages against opaque space-time constricts that he exists within and produces from. His practice generates pathways to acknowledge and alchemize harms committed to disrupt despair, rewriting h(is)tory, honoring the present, while aiming to earn the respect of future generations by equipping them with translatable artifacts that can act as a compass for the coming world.
Exhibition Visits, VR Salon & Sound Immersion
Tuesday 11/12
Opening
from 6pm – 10pm
Weds 11/13
from 3pm – 6pm
Friday 11/15
from 3pm – 6pm
