Screening and conversation
Free admission
September 12, 2024, 6pm
Brooklyn, NY 11205
USA
Join us at e-flux Screening Room on Thursday, September 12 at 6pm for a screening of The Stuart Hall Project, presented in collaboration with Pratt School of Art as part of the public programs accompanying the Pieces of You, Pieces of Me exhibition. Directed by John Akomfrah, the film follows the late public intellectual Stuart Hall’s journey from Jamaica to London, and his foundational contribution to the field of cultural studies. The screening will be followed by a conversation with the exhibition’s curators Nande Walters and Skye Prosper, and a gathering.
Pieces of You, Pieces of Me is Pratt School of Art’s third collective student exhibition. Curated by Pratt School of Art alumni Nande Walters and Skye Prosper, the exhibition weaves a diasporic web connecting culture, art, and personal identity through literal and abstract representations. The exhibition features fifteen artists whose roots span North America, the Caribbean, and Africa. Through this exhibition, the curators aim to challenge and expand racial and historical narratives by presenting these artists’ visions for the future and fabulated alternatives to the past.
John Akomfrah, The Stuart Hall Project (2013, 103 minutes)
Co-founder of the New Left Review and pioneering figure of cultural studies, Jamaican-born Stuart Hall (1932-2014) has had a resounding—and ongoing—influence on British intellectual life and the wider political and academic landscape. Weaving between the musical archaeology of Miles Davis, and a life lived through the defining political moments and narratives of the twentieth century, director John Akomfrah carefully constructs archival sequences of rare, forgotten, and long-since-seen historical material in this intimate and engaging portrait.
For more information, contact program@e-flux.com.
Accessibility
– Two flights of stairs lead up to the building’s front entrance at 172 Classon Avenue.
– For elevator access, please RSVP to program@e-flux.com. The building has a freight elevator which leads into the e-flux office space. Entrance to the elevator is nearest to 180 Classon Ave (a garage door). We have a ramp for the steps within the space.
– e-flux has an ADA-compliant bathroom. There are no steps between the Screening Room and this bathroom.