The Park Avenue Armory

Park Avenue Armory’s Making Space at the Armory reimagines what a convening can look like in the wake of the global pandemic, in response to calls for racial equity, indigenous land acknowledgement, and inclusive audiences for risk-taking art. With the Princeton Collaboratorium for Radical Aesthetics, the Armory presents a two-day symposium mixing public talks, performances, and a private retreat, offering an international cohort of Black curators the opportunity to reflect and debate on how the “racial reckoning in art and performance” has shaped their work with institutions. As a capstone of this event, artist Richard Kennedy presents a musical encapsulation of the African diaspora titled “Guttural (Conducted Contact).” Kennedy has brought on collaborator Vera Passos, co-Artistic Director of Viver Brasil, to create a new improvised component for “Rezas e Fohlas” telling the story of the African diaspora. It will be Viver Brasil and Passos’s first engagement in New York City.