Kentifrica Is: Reimaging Collective Geographies
4343 Leimert Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008
Friday, April 7 at 6:00 PM 8:00 PM
Ends Apr 7, 2017
For the final event for Kentifrica Is: Re-Imaging Collective Geographies on Friday April 7th from 6pm-8pm Kenyatta Hinkle and 18th Street will partner with Ben Cadwell for a Kentifrican Closing Ritual in which we will discuss the limits of erasure and collective devise a call for action to eradicate daily acts of erasure in our personal lives, communities and beyond.Please join us at KAOS Network in Leimert Park.While in residence for the Artist Lab at the 18th Street Art Center Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle has been pondering the true power and limits of erasure in which she has been wondering if people, items and customs can ever truly be erased. She has conjectured that the residue of those who come before us remain present and is evident whether it is visible to the naked eye or not. As people shift and move throughout collective geographies we also carry these presences through objects. Through Kentifrican collaborations at 18th Street Hinkle invited people to bring personal objects that represented places and memories that are deemed unreachable due to erasure. Through discussing the importance of these objects, why they traveled with people and what they have come to represent in their lives we were able to develop conversations that form bridges and third spaces between various identities, emotional states and locales.Ben Caldwell is a Los Angeles-based arts educator and independent filmmaker. In 1984, he founded KAOS Network, a community art center dedicated to providing training for young people in digital arts, media arts and multi-media in the heart of historic Leimert Park. KAOS Network was designed to empower the youth of the community and is the only organization of its kind in South Central Los Angeles.
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