Vertigo @ Midnight: February 23 - March 6, 2015

Ademola Olugebefola. "Healing Shield" (2009), plexiglas and electrical apparatus (neon light sculpture)

Ademola Olugebefola. "Healing Shield" (2009), plexiglas and electrical apparatus (neon light sculpture)

Zeal Harris. "Reflections on Katrina Evacuation" (2006), mixed media on canvas

Zeal Harris. "Reflections on Katrina Evacuation" (2006), mixed media on canvas

Chris Christion. "(Floating Globe) Theological Racism and the Suspension of Belief" (2015), mixed media

Chris Christion. "(Floating Globe) Theological Racism and the Suspension of Belief" (2015), mixed media

Sydney Dyson. "Being: Soaring" (2014), bailing wire, electrical wire, copper wire, eucalyptus Trunk, organza, tulle

Sydney Dyson. "Being: Soaring" (2014), bailing wire, electrical wire, copper wire, eucalyptus Trunk, organza, tulle

Sydney Dyson. Detail photo of "All Beings Are Born From This Tree” (2014), europly, bailing wire, ink, collaged magazine clippings, paper

Sydney Dyson. Detail photo of "All Beings Are Born From This Tree” (2014), europly, bailing wire, ink, collaged magazine clippings, paper

Vertigo @ Midnight: New Visual Afrofuturisms and Speculative Migrations

Curated by Dr. Valorie Thomas
Clark Humanities Museum, Scripps College | Chan Gallery, Pomona College

Vertigo @ Midnight opens dialogue about disorientation and equilibrium through the lens of African Diasporic Vertigo as a cultural idiom in AfroFuturist and speculative art. The artwork in this exhibition ventures into the crossroads, shifting and challenging everything we think we know about race, space, gender, science, magic, technology, the alien and the human.

The Artists

  • L[E]^2 {Lee Blalock}
  • Chakaia Booker
  • Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
  • Chris Christion
  • Oluwatobi Clement (PO '14)
  • Sydney Dyson (PO '14)
  • Claude Fiddler
  • Krista Franklin
  • Sharon Grier
  • Karen Hampton
  • Zeal Harris
  • David Huffman
  • Lek Jeyifous
  • Ademola Olugebefola
  • Glynnis Reed
  • Cauleen Smith
  • Renee Stout
  • Sheila Walker
  • Jessica Wimbley
  • Saya Woolfalk

Artist Lectures

Wednesday, March 4, 2015 - Jessica Wimbley

Thursday, March 5, 2015 - Chris Christion

Film Screenings

Friday, March 6, 2015

  • Metropolis Suite: Janelle Monae
  • Corporate Cannibal; The Rain: Supa Dupa Fly; And Window Seat
  • The Wake And Michael Jackson Futurist Videos
  • Pumzi
  • I Can Heal
  • Maangamizi: The Ancient One
  • Noise Gate
  • Walking Dead, Being Human, Bar Star City; And The Repass
  • Danger Word
  • Filmmakers Panel With Tananarive Due, Queenae & Ron Mulvihill, Salim Lemelle, Rae Shaw And Guests

Saturday March 7, 2015

  • Last Angel Of History
  • Jonah
  • Pumzi
  • The Brother From Another Planet
  • Yeelen
  • Cosmic Slop

(All photos by Janice Choi)

Read about Vertigo @ Midnight in The Student Life