PERFORMANCE BY TIA-SIMONE GARDNER & DAMEUN STRANGE
PERFORMANCE BY TIA-SIMONE GARDNER & DAMEUN STRANGE
Join us Saturday, July 18th at 7 pm, for Strike, a performance dialogue with featured artist Tia-Simone Gardner and composer Dameun Strange.
Strike is a meditation on Fairfield, Alabama, extraction, labor, geologic time, the anvil, and Black spirituality, originally composed by Strange to accompany Gardner’s research and artwork grounded in her hometown.
Don’t miss this collaboration by two leading artists as they bring Gardner’s exhibition Bitter Sweet Earths to a resonant close.
Performance and closing reception
Saturday, July 18, 7pm
Cruise, 3008b Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis
Light beverages provided
Artist BioTia-Simone Gardner, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the department of Media and Cultural Studies at Macalester College, Saint Paul. Gardner is a true multimedia artist working in photography, printing, sculpture, installation and time-based media. As a Black feminist educator, Gardner’s practice explores how Black geographies intersect with designs of built environments and manmade natural worlds.
Raised in Fairfield, Alabama, Gardner earned an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in Feminist Studies at the University of Minnesota. Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions, residencies, fellowships.
Her longterm research-driven projects focus on land, rivers, extraction, mobility, and maritime history, including floating camera obscuras.
Dameun Strange is a Twin Cities–based sound artist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer whose conceptual chamber, electronic, and electro‑acoustic works center Black futures and African diasporic histories.