Please join us for Gina Athena Ulysse’s bold and timely performance, #BlackLiberationMashup.

Free and open to the public.

#BlackLiberationMashUp” remixes excerpts from texts by activists, academics and artists on questions of liberation in the Black diaspora spanning over two centuries. This rasanblaj includes M. Jacqui Alexander, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Suzanne Césaire, Amil Cabral, Antenor Firmin, Saidiya Hartman, Jamaica Kincaid, Robin D.G. Kelley, Michel-Rolph Trouillot and numerous others.

The performance unfolds over 50 minutes, followed by a dynamic 40-minute discussion.

Gina Athena Ulysse is based in Santa Cruz, California where she is a *Rasanblaj artist and scholar, and professor of Feminist Studies at UCSC. A photographer, poet, chanteuse, and a cultural anthropologist who is always writing something, she has presented her works in numerous colleges, and universities nationally and internationally. She has also performed in artistic venues including: The Bowery, Brecht Forum, The British Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Court Theatre, Gorki Theatre, House of World Cultures in Berlin, LaMaMa, Lyric Stage Theatre, Marcus Garvey Liberty Hall, MoMA Salon, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia among others. In 2020, she was invited to the Biennale of Sydney. In these times, she’s engaged in a RedwoodsRasanblaj.

*Rasanblaj: “(a gathering of ideas, things, people, spirits) […] fueled by ancestral liberation, and love imperatives [,] engag[ing] with the visceral in the structural, to fully participate in the decolonizing project of accessing and reclaiming a full and embodied subject.” [cf. “Caribbean Rasanblaj,”special double issue, emisférica 12.1 (2015), ed. GA Ulysse: http://archive.hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/emisferica-121-caribbean-rasanblaj]

For more information on Gina Athena Ulysse, please visit her website: https://ginaathenaulysse.com/.

Organized by the Humanities Institute Performance Research Workshop, this event has been made possible by the Office of Inclusive Excellence, the Gender Institute, the Humanities Institute, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Office of International Education, the Melodia E Jones Chair of French, and the Departments of Africana and American Studies, Global Gender and Sexuality Studies, Romance Languages and Literatures, and Theatre and Dance.

For more information on the performance and Gina Athena Ulysse’s visit, please contact Samantha Schifano (smschifa@buffalo.edu) or Christian Flaugh (cflaugh@buffalo.edu).