Wednesday February 22, 7:30pm
Artist Talk: Ayanna Dozier
In conversation with Brittnay L. Proctor
In-Person and Live-Streamed
Microscope is very pleased to present a conversation between Ayanna Dozier and scholar Brittnay L. Proctor In connection with Dozier’s current solo exhibition at the gallery “This Country Makes it Hard to Fuck,” featuring new works in film and film photography.
Proctor says:
“Engaging with the Black feminist theory and poetics in Dozier’s work, the dialogue will examine the artist’s multidisciplinary practice … . At the center of the discussion lies oft-ignored sexual politics of alienation, desire, and hyper-sexualization of Black femmes that undergird the works on view.”
The discussion will take place in-person at the gallery and will also be live-streamed on this page at 7:30pm on February 22nd. Admission is free.
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Ayanna Dozier is a Brooklyn-based artist. Her art practice includes film (both motion picture and still), performance, and installation work. Her work has been exhibited at The Shed, New York, NY; Fragment Gallery, New York, NY; Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY; BRIC Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; and the Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL amongst other venues. Her films have been screened at festivals including Open City Docs (2020), BlackStar (2021), Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival (2021), Prismatic Ground (2022) and Aesthetic Film Festival where she was the recipient of Best Experimental in 2020 for her film “Softer.” She was a 2022 Wave Hill Winter Workspace Resident, a 2018-2019 Helena Rubinstein Fellow in Critical Studies at the Whitney Independent Studies Program, and a Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow from 2017-2022 at Whitney Museum of American Art.
Brittnay L. Proctor is a researcher and writer of performance, popular culture, and sound/visual culture at the nexus of blackness, gender, and sexuality. She is faculty in the School of Media Studies at The New School (NY) and the author of Minnie Riperton’s Come to My Garden (Bloomsbury Press: 33 1/3 Series). She is currently working on a second book manuscript which draws on LP records and Compact Disc’s (CD’s), to trace the sonic and visual discourses of gender and sexuality in funk music.