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Ellies info session + Connect

Germane Barnes + GeoVanna Gonzalez

Wed, June 24
5:30 pm ET / 2:30 PT

Connect

Germane Barnes + GeoVanna Gonzalez
moderated by Michelle Lisa Polissaint

For the next edition of Ellies Connect, architect Germane Barnes and artist GeoVanna Gonzalez will discuss how their Ellies projects consider the way domestic spaces can be used to explore Black domesticity and alternative forms of exhibition-making. The conversation will be moderated by Oolite Arts Education & Community Engagement Manager, Michelle Lisa Polissaint.

Barnes will explain how writings by critical race scholar, Rashad Shabazz, and architect, Le Corbusier, informed the research behind his forthcoming art installation, “Unbound: Black spatial investigation of congruent conjecture”.

Gonzalez will focus on Supplement Projects, a communal home, alternative art space, and community meeting point. The project explores ideas of domesticity within the urban landscape and offers a provocative alternative to the often commercialized spaces of art galleries and institutions.

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Wed, June 24
5:30 pm ET / 2:30 pm PT

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Germane Barnes

Barnes’ research and design practice investigates the connection between architecture and identity, examining architecture’s social and political agency, he examines how the built environment influences black domesticity. His design and research contributions have been published and exhibited in several international institutions. Most notably, The Museum of Modern Art, The New York Times, Oolite Arts, DesignMIAMI/ Art Basel, The Swiss Institute, Metropolis Magazine, and The National Museum of African American History.

View more images of Barnes’ work here.

GeoVanna Gonzalez

GeoVanna Gonzalez is a Miami/Berlin-based artist. Interested in producing alternative environments, her work explores the connections between private and public spaces through interventionist and participatory art, new forms of collaboration and deliberate collectivity. She is founder and curator of Supplement Projects, an alternative art space & community meeting point based in a communal home and a studio in Miami; co-founder of performative reading club Read What You Want!; and member of queer/feminist arts collective COVEN Berlin.

View more images from GeoVanna project here.