Black Life Newsletter: Jasmine Nyende Returns Saturn
a Saturnian mythology workshop next month and why some people be mad at me sometimes
Welcome back to Black Life ~
This winter has giving all of us much to be fiery about. I hope you’re finding ways to rage and to relief yourselves of the dissonance of our daily lives. Next month, on behalf of Black Life, I’m honored to present a very special meditation and workshop. On Saturday, February 3, 2024, Black Life Presents, Jasmine Nyende: Returns Saturn. Nyende’s explorations of Saturn, the most magnetic planet in our solar system, through a risograph collage workshop that encourages attendees to spin their own mythology of the ring-adorned celestial body. Using iconography from Sun Ra’s Space Is the Place, Rosie Lee Tompkins’s pop culture–filled quilts, and the artist’s own astrological and herbal medicine practice, Nyende guides participants toward a self-cosmology in relation to the most feared planet in the sky.
Jasmine Nyende Returns Saturn
1pm on Saturday February 3, 2024
BAMPFA’s Koret Reading Room + Art Lab
Tickets
Jasmine Nyende is an artist and musician from Los Angeles. She is the lead vocalist for the Black femme punk band FUPU! Her art practice spans poetry, textiles, sculpture, and performance. Nyende’s work has been featured at Smart Objects LA, Sade Gallery, Company Gallery, The Hammer Museum, The Main Museum, MOCA, MOMA PS1, Human Resources, ICA London, and In Lieu Gallery. Nyende is currently pursuing an MFA at UC Berkeley.
As always, we reserve a set amount of free tickets that we joyfully offer to Black Life’s extended community of Black and brown artists, culture workers and curious viewers. We encourage you to send a request for a ticket with your full name to blackblacklifelife@gmail.com by the afternoon of Thursday, February 1st.
why some people be mad at me sometimes
they ask me to remember
but they want me to remember
their memories
and i keep on remembering
mine.
Lucille Clifton (1936-2010)
Come September
“In 1937, Winston Churchill said of the Palestinians, I quote, “I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.”
Arundhati Roy, September 2002
Dust Tracks on a Road
“Like the dead-seeming, cold rocks, I have memories within that came out of the material that went to make me. Time and place have had their say. So you will have to know something about the time and place where I came from, in order that you may interpret the incidents and directions of my life.”
Zora Neale Hurston, excerpt of her 1942 autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road
Take good care,
ruth