THE CIRCLE: CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ART.
WE’RE HAVING A SPECIAL SESSION TO TALK ABOUT THE ART WORLD TODAY.
The goal is to be beyond what has become so much in abundance and commercial. The goal is to talk about things that go deeper than just the issues of the day. It’s an attempt to tap into subjects that society has been driven away from for convenience over community; an intimate understanding of individual human identity, reality and dynamic to build upon community.
In the context of what we do and who we are, conversations about the Black and Brown African American experience will always prominent to and for us. The fact that in America—the home of African Americans—oppression, repressions and suppression still do very much exist. While immigrant cultures come here even in the modern day in the pursuit and attempt of a building a better life for themselves, it has been my experience that African Americans—who hold the concepts, intentions and ideas of immigrates that came before—inherently have an authority of what it is to be creative…here…in America. Whether paint and portraiture, architecture and design, style and fashion, engineering and technologies, African Americans do not fall behind the standard…especially if not disproportionately affected by social standards and conditions.
As a matter of what is being done by the current administration where the apparent clocks are being turned back, we’re engaged seeking out others within the African American communities that do not fit the molds that commercial and corporate entities have deemed the societal definition and identity. In this case and manner, we’re seeking those artists and visionaries that go beyond the perspective of accepting what is today…in order to build a different and new concept for tomorrow.
The drive to take advantage of what racists and other who remain in denial about pertaining the significant place, position and identity of Black and Brown African Americans within American and the larger international community is to build upon the strong platforms that have been given to us. To resist the urge of conformity or even the ongoing acceptance of behaviors and actives that truly serve at our detriment rather than our collective empowerment. Our goal is to get beyond the comfort zone of what has become the Black and Brown identity today in getting to a more profound and innovative place for tomorrow.
*Being pitched as means of building greater community, the concept still applies to that of The NūHUMAN Project and Foundation. Our effort—my effort—is to further use the Arts as a profound means community building and conversation. As I know none of us are perfect, I stand squarely in that position confidence within imperfection. That confidence—that confidence thru experience and exploration resulting in self-defined excellence—is what I want to encourage to others. Especially to those communities that need it as a form of recovery, we want to further invite, embrace and encourage others. —Liam Ian
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