On HIstory and Memory
Toulouse Theater
615 Toulouse Street
New Orleans, LA, 70130
For the past decade, Dawoud Bey has been making photographs and video works that re-envision aspects of the African American past and bring that history into a contemporary conversation. The artist will share his recent Prospect.5 project, In This Here Place, which is currently on exhibit in the Scovern Gallery at The Historic New Orleans Collection, and join Brian Piper, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Assistant Curator of Photographs at the New Orleans Museum of Art, in a conversation about his ongoing history-based work. The program will open with a premier screening of Bron Moyi’s short film, “Dawoud Bey: The Landscape of Slavery.”
The Historic New Orleans Collection (HNOC) will host a reception immediately following the lecture in the Tricentennial Wing at 520 Royal Street in the French Quarter. Bey’s exhibition, In This Here Place, will be open for viewing. In the exhibit, Bey visits Louisiana plantation landscapes that were witness to slavery-era violence. The work includes large-format black-and- white photographs and Evergreen, a multimedia installation accompanied by music performed by Imani Uzari. Hors d’oeuvres and refreshments will be served.
Explore the Cahn-Lawrence Lecture
The Jules L. Cahn John H. Lawrence Photography Lecture series aims to spotlight fresh voices and perspectives on photography of Louisiana and the Gulf South. Presented annually as part of PhotoNOLA, New Orleans’s citywide photography festival, the lecture series is a tribute to John H. Lawrence, longtime curator of photography and director of museum programs, who retired in 2020.
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