Location
26 Wooster Street
New York, New York 10013
United States
Date & Time
6:00pm EDT - 8:30pm EDT
Price
About This Event
On the occasion of Pamela Sneed and Carlos Martiel’s joint exhibition, Sacred and Profane, the artists gather for an evening of live performance, transforming the exhibition space into a living site of memory, resistance, and collective witness.
Taking place within the exhibition, Carlos Martiel performs a new piece, No Resurrection, a visceral work developed with his mother that confronts the grief, powerlessness, and resilience of African-American mothers whose children have been killed through police violence and systemic oppression. The performance charges the body as both archive and witness, inviting viewers to sit with pain, loss, and powerlessness, while recognizing survival as a radical act.
Pamela Sneed puts forward a poetic intervention, drawn from her extensive investigation into Fire Island's history of slavery and her discovery of 17th-18th century slave pens on the Island. The readings engage and summon the presence and erasure of Black bodies to honor those who have been held there. Viewers are invited to reflect on their role as witnesses, and participants, in uncovering the histories that persist into the present.
Together, the artists reflect on embodiment, colonial violence, queer space, Black queer haunting, and resistance. Sacred and Profane asserts that public engagement is not passive: to gather, to watch, and to remember is to participate in the recovery of the body as evidence of what was taken—and what still remains.
Presented in partnership with BOFFO.
Accessibility
Limited chairs with backs will be available. Located at 26 Wooster Street, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art strives to provide a welcoming environment to all visitors. Five external steps lead to our entrance doors: a wheelchair lift is available. All galleries are wheelchair-accessible, and a single-occupancy accessible restroom is located behind the visitor services desk: all restrooms are gender-neutral. Large print didactics are available.
For questions or access requests, please email info@leslielohman.org with 1 week advance of your visit.
About This Event
On the occasion of Pamela Sneed and Carlos Martiel’s joint exhibition, Sacred and Profane, the artists gather for an evening of live performance, transforming the exhibition space into a living site of memory, resistance, and collective witness.
Taking place within the exhibition, Carlos Martiel performs a new piece, No Resurrection, a visceral work developed with his mother that confronts the grief, powerlessness, and resilience of African-American mothers whose children have been killed through police violence and systemic oppression. The performance charges the body as both archive and witness, inviting viewers to sit with pain, loss, and powerlessness, while recognizing survival as a radical act.
Pamela Sneed puts forward a poetic intervention, drawn from her extensive investigation into Fire Island's history of slavery and her discovery of 17th-18th century slave pens on the Island. The readings engage and summon the presence and erasure of Black bodies to honor those who have been held there. Viewers are invited to reflect on their role as witnesses, and participants, in uncovering the histories that persist into the present.
Together, the artists reflect on embodiment, colonial violence, queer space, Black queer haunting, and resistance. Sacred and Profane asserts that public engagement is not passive: to gather, to watch, and to remember is to participate in the recovery of the body as evidence of what was taken—and what still remains.
Presented in partnership with BOFFO.
Accessibility
Limited chairs with backs will be available. Located at 26 Wooster Street, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art strives to provide a welcoming environment to all visitors. Five external steps lead to our entrance doors: a wheelchair lift is available. All galleries are wheelchair-accessible, and a single-occupancy accessible restroom is located behind the visitor services desk: all restrooms are gender-neutral. Large print didactics are available.
For questions or access requests, please email info@leslielohman.org with 1 week advance of your visit.
Getting There
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
26 Wooster Street
New York, New York 10013
United States
Location
26 Wooster Street
New York, New York 10013
United States
Date & Time
6:00pm EDT - 8:30pm EDT