Sentences with phrase «yams collective»

Controversies such as the one generated by the Yams Collective (HowDoYouSayYaminAfrican?)

Many objected to the piece's inclusion in the Biennial; the Yams Collective, the largest of eight collectives participating that year, withdrew from the show because of it.

With the Whitney Biennial, the withdrawal of the Yams Collective, and questions of race fresh in our minds, the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) opens its new biennial, NYC Makers, tomorrow.

Yams Collective Pulls Out of Whitney Biennial As the final days of the Whitney Biennial approach, a race - related kerfuffle has emerged.

A REVIEW OF THE WEEK»S NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS IN THE ART WORLD Featuring Yams Collective, Thomas J. Lax, Christian Rosa and contemporary auction results

CT TOP IMAGE: Members of the Yams Collective by Karsten Moran for The New York Times via The Times

The prominent withdrawal of the Yams Collective from the 2014 biennial (which included just nine African Americans) over their concerns about a controversial work on view in the exhibition, as well as their treatment by the museum, is a stark example.

Update, 10:04 pm EST: The Yams Collective has offered the following clarification with regard to the timing of their withdrawal ahead of the Biennial's closure May 25:

Finally, the Scanlan / Donelle Woolford project forced the withdrawal of the Yams Collective from the Whitney Biennial.

They submitted their withdrawal to the Whitney yesterday, which Yams Collective member Maureen Catbagan said was driven by objections to the Biennial's inclusion of Joe Scanlan's «Donelle Woolford» piece, in which the white male Princeton professor hires black female actors to play the part of a fictional black artist named Donelle Woolford (the piece has been ongoing since 2005, according to the artist's website).

As intended, the project has set off a healthy and robust debate about the realities of race, class, and gender privilege within the art world, culminating in the decision of the Yams Collective to withdraw from the Biennial.

The Yams collective clarified some of the reasons they withdrew from the biennial in an email from Sienna Shields last May:

In Post-Speculation, the Yams collective has illuminated New York gallery P!

June 5 I'd wager that one of the biggest artistic losses of the year was the Yams Collective's withdrawal of themselves and their work «Good Stock on the Dimension Floor: An Opera» from the Whitney Biennial.

, known informally as the Yams Collective, withdrew from the Biennial.

The YAMS collective, a group of musicians, poets, actors, writers and artists, pulled their participation in 2014 in response to the inclusion of artist Joe Scanlon's work.

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Additionally, The YAMS Collective, or HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN?

Yams Collective member and artist Sienna Shields said «Every Whitney Biennial I have ever been to, you can barely count the number of black artists in the show on one hand.

She became controversial when the Yams Collective, a group of black artists exhibiting a video in the said biennial withdrew their work in protest.

As we recently explored here on Artspace, the alter ego is a trenchant aspect of contemporary art — think of the recent controversy surrounding the Yams Collective's withdrawal from the Whitney Biennial because of artist Joe Scanlan's adopting of a black female identity (fictional artist «Donelle Woolford») as an avatar.

Richie Adomako, Writer, Artist, Designer and Member of the Yams Collective «If this is the epitaph then I hope it's something he can live with... I will see it to see where his heart is going — but don't bank me on that statement.»

The protest and withdrawal by the Yams Collective wouldn't have been effective without the catalysis of Donelle Woolford.

When in 2014 white artist Joe Scanlan introduces a character played by a black woman into the Whitney Biennial, the mostly queer and black Yams Collective withdraws from the show.

Yams Collective's alias HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN?

Already situated as a single entity charged with representing a vast diaspora in the absence of true parity, Yams Collective ultimately chose to withdraw their work from the exhibition after failing to receive what they felt was an adequately sensitive response from the museum staff or Grabner regarding their concerns.

This tension was brought to light recently by the Yams collective, which withdrew from the Biennial in protest of the inclusion of work by Joe Scanlan, a Princeton professor who submitted work fictitiously created by a black female artist named Donelle Woolford — a hornet's nest of racial and gender - based provocation.

< NEWS On May 13, Yams Collective, a group of 38 artists formally known as HowDoYouSayYaminAfrican, withdraws from the 2014 Whitney Biennial largely in objection to what it views as racial exploitation in the work of Joe Scanlan, another biennial artist, who for years has presented himself as Donelle Woolford, a Black female performance artist.

YAM COLLECTIVE, the group of artists formally known as HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN, that withdrew from the 2014 Whitney Biennial earlier this month in objection to what it viewed as racial exploitation in another artist's work, is presenting two performances at Freecandy in Brooklyn on May 29 and 30.

YAM COLLECTIVE has commented at length on its withdrawal from the Whitney Biennial.

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(Donelle Woolford, it should be noted, is the fiction of a white artist, Joe Scanlon, and «her» inclusion prompted an actual black collective, YAMS, to quit the Biennial.)

(Yams) Collective withdrew their poem / opera «Good Stock on the Dimension Floor» from the Whitney Biennial last year.

We did a 24 - channel installation with the Yams [collective] that was installed in three days and up for four.»

DumbType (Japan); Chto Delat, AES+F (Russia); Dis, K - Hole, Exteriority, Bernadette Corporation, Claire Fontaine, Bruce High Quality Foundation, Etoy Corporation, YAMS, and slightly earlier collectives Goat Island, Ant Farm, guerrilla girls (USA); GCC Gulf Coperation Council (Gulf and beyond) and the Arab Image Foundation (Lebanon).

The New York - based collective The Yams has withdrawn its work from a Whitney Biennial screening this weekend over the inclusion in the Biennial of a provocative project by Joe Scanlan.

The Yams, (shown above) a collective of 38 mostly black and gay artists, withdrew from the museum's semiannual event (March 7 to May 25, 2014) over the participation of another artist and his controversial project.

In many ways, the Yams personify the challenges of collectives and the informal and unexpected way they work.