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Exhibition: Nikesha Breeze– Four Sites of Return: Ritual, Remembrance, Reparation & Reclamation

Nikesha Breeze– Four Sites of Return:
Ritual, Remembrance, Reparation & Reclamation 
University Art Museum, Contemporary Gallery and Bunny Conlon Modern and Contemporary Art Gallery
January 21-March 5, 2022
Opening Reception: Friday, January 21, 2022, 5:30-7:30PM

Four Sites of Return- Ritual, Remembrance, Reparation & Reclamationincludes new and existing works by artist Nikesha Breeze that surface the collective traumas, histories, rituals, and healing of the African Diaspora in the Southwest. Through site-specific installation, sculpture, paintings, film and live performance, Breeze seamlessly weaves African Diasporic histories, Afrofuturism and their own ancestral connection to Blackdom, NM, the state’s first all-Black community. This exhibition opens on January 21st, 2022 at the University Art Museum (UAM) at New Mexico State University (NMSU) in the Contemporary Gallery and Bunny Conlon Modern and Contemporary Art Gallery and will remain on view until March 5th, 2022. 

Within Four Sites of Return, a new iteration of the project Stages of Tectonic Blackness will be presented. Stages of Tectonic Blackness is an ongoing series of durational performances and ritualized, elongated mourning rites choreographed and orchestrated by performers Nikesha Breeze, Miles Tokunow, Lazarus Nance Letcher, and cinematographer, MK. Stages of Tectonic Blackness: Blackdom, was physically performed in November, 2021 and is conceptually centered in the early 20th century Black freedom town called Blackdom. The UAM will present a two-channel film of the performance, as well as mixed-media objects and a kiosk playing interviews from descendants of Blackdom.

Join us for the opening reception of these two exhibitions including a special performance of Stages of Tectonic Blackness in the University Art Museum on Friday, January 21, 2022. The public reception begins at 5:30 PM and the performance is scheduled to begin at 6:30 PM.

More info here.