#kambui olujimi

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Kambui Olujimi — The Drop (from the series "InDecisive Moments") [hand-blown glass and water, 2017]

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Kambui Olujimi, Hart Island Crew

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Cameron Granger (A ‘17), Jeffrey Gibson (F 14), Glenn Ligon (F ‘98, 15), Kambui Olujimi (A ‘06), Stephanie Syjuco (A ‘97), Carmen Winant (A ‘10), Jody Wood (A ‘12) All Together, Amongst Many: Reflections on Empathy Bemis Center 724 S. 12th Street, Omaha, NE 68102 June 05 - September 15 

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Your vote is your voice. Act today with Plan Your Vote, an artist initiative to promote and empower citizens to exercise their right to vote by linking them to state-specific information about registration, mail-in and absentee voting, voter ID requirements, and polling places. 

Today you should: register if you haven’t already, verify your registration if you have any doubt, check your absentee status if you aren’t sure, or set a reminder in case you forget.⁠ Head to planyourvote.org or vote.org to plan your voting strategy, and browse a library of voting advocacy images created by artists, including several familiar ones you may have seen at the Brooklyn Museum.⁠ ⁠ 

Works by ⁠Wangechi Mutu  ⇨ Dyani White Hawk ⁠⇨ American Artist ⇨ Guerrilla Girls ⇨ Sanford Biggers ⇨ Marilyn Minter ⇨ Robert Longo ⇨ Kambui Olujimi ⇨ Paul Ramirez Jones ⇨ Laurie Simmons

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Twin Fall, Kambui Olujimi (2020)

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Carrie Mae Weems, The Considered, See Bergman, 2012, Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. 

Carrie Mae Weems in conversation with Kambui Olujimi

In the wake of the non-indictment of Officers Daniel Pantaleo and Darren Wilson for the killings of Eric Gardner and Mike Brown, I began a series of interviews with African-American artists discussing the impact of these continued affronts to the citizenship, personhood, and freedom of POC, and particularly, African Americans.  How do we as cultural producers digest and transform this legacy? Over the last three years, a number of these interviews have been published, hopefully expanding the conversations around these issues and creating new dialogues, as it is not the burden of those subjugated to convince their perpetrators that humanity extends beyond them, nor should it be their life's work to struggle to be recognized and treated as human. This interview was conducted over the phone with Carrie Mae Weems in the summer of 2015. One of the most influential contemporary American artists, Weems’ work, spanning more than thirty years of photographs, audio, texts, digital media, and installations, is deeply concerned with the structures and consequences of power both on an interpersonal and systemic level. -KO

Kambui Olujimi: So today I wanted to talk to you a little bit about the impact of police violence, and see where the conversation goes.  

Carrie Mae Weems: Oh, (chuckling) why me? Why would you give me that?

Because I'm interested in how it impacts us as makers, and you, in particular. I was revisiting work of yours that deals with the construction of fictions and I’m interested in how these narratives move from a place of mythic consequence into concrete consequence. Whether it's Ain't Jokin or other works, I’m interested in what happens with them once they come out of that symbolic space.

Okay, alrighty...

Carrie Mae Weems and Kambui Olujimi in Conversation, now up on Performa Magazine.   Read their full discussion here.

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Baseera Khan (’14), Devin Kenny (’09), Hank Willis Thomas (’05), Kambui Olujimi (’06), Jayson Musson (’11), Shaun Leonardo (’04) and others Wu Tang Clan x Absolut Art 555 West 25 St October 24 & 25

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Your King is on Fire by Kambui Olujimi