Kentifrican Interventions: Navigating the Historical Present
The work that will be featured will be a heavily curated selection of works from three concurrent studio projects that Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle has been working on for the past eight years. The show will highlight her work with historical documents and research in which she re-mixes and re-imagines new mythologies or ways of engaging with the black body respectively. For this exhibit, Hinkle proposes to create an installation in which her various bodies of work will be in close conversation with each other for the first time underneath the conceptual framework of Kentifrican concepts of intervention. Kentrifica (Ken-tif-rica) is a contested geography/continent for which she is developing an educational and research platform.
Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle is an interdisciplinary visual artist, writer and performer. Her practice fluctuates between collaborations and participatory projects with alternative gallery spaces within various communities to projects that are intimate and based upon her private experiences in relationship to historical events and contexts. A term that has become a mantra for her practice is the “Historical Present,” as she examines the residue of history and how it affects our contemporary world perspective. She is an alumna of the California Institute of the Arts’ Interschool program in which she received her MFA in Art & Critical Studies/Creative Writing. Her artwork and experimental writing has been exhibited and performed at The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; Project Row Houses in Houston, TX; and The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, CA. Hinkle’s work has been reviewed by the Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, Artforum, The Huffington Post, The Washington Post and The New York Times. Hinkle was listed on The Huffington Post’s “Black Artists: 30 Contemporary Art Makers Under 40 You Should Know.” Hinkle will be representing the United States as a Fulbright Scholar to Lagos, Nigeria 2015-16.
Hinkle is also leading a two-day workshop for Scripps students only called “Navigating the Historical Present” on September 29 and October 6. This workshop is open to Scripps students only and registration will be required at least one week in advance. Please contact (909) 621-8237 or [email protected] for more information.