Creative Capital Awardees Okwui Okpokwasili & Peter Born will perform On the way, undone October 21-23 as part of FIAF’s Crossing the Line Festival.

Raja Feather Kelly’s Creative Capital Project, WEDNESDAY.

Film still from Ry Russo-Young’s Creative Capital Project, Nuclear Family, premiering on HBO Max on September 26, 2021.

The Jerome Project (My Loss), by Titus Kaphar, part of his Creative Capital Project.

Video still from Cannupa Hanska Luger’s Future Ancestral Technologies ++ a generation of new myth ++, part of his Creative Capital Project, on view at Garth Greenan Gallery in New York City.

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Performing Arts
Poor People’s TV Room

Poor People’s TV Room by Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born is a performance work concerned with the entanglement of visibility and shared embodiment. Explore more performing arts projects.

Visual Arts
Counterpoint
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Jennie C. Jones’ Counterpoint investigates African-American modes of formalism at mid-century, with an emphasis on the contributions of composer and pianist John Lewis. Explore more visual arts projects.

Literary Arts
The Rough
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The Rough by Arturo Vidich focuses on a queer pirate radio operator who travels to the Russian Steppe to broadcast banned literature for a troop of anti-Soviet pranksters. Explore more literary arts projects.

Technology
Changing Same: An American Pilgrimage
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Changing Same: An American Pilgrimage uses immersive virtual reality in a room-scale installation to take users on a journey to witness the historical experiences of racial injustice. Explore more technology art projects.

Moving Image
How to build a wall and other ruins
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How to build a wall and other ruins by Karina Aguilera Skvirsky is a video installation that looks at engineering feats of the Inca to insert the body into an archeological site. Explore more moving image projects.

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