Serpentine Pavilion 30 Jun 2017 Free

Cinematographer and artist Arthur Jafa hosted an evening in response to his summer exhibition at the Serpentine North Gallery, A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions.

Arthur Jafa’s work is driven by a recurrent question: how might one identify and develop a specifically Black visual aesthetics equal to the ‘power, beauty and alienation’ of Black music in US culture?

Park Nights is the Serpentine’s experimental, interdisciplinary live platform, programmed for the Galleries’ annual architectural commission, the Serpentine Pavilion.

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