Nightwalker & A Picture for Parco Screenings at MUFF
April 26th-27th
Nightwalker (2022) will have its world premiere at the Milwaukee Underground Film Festival on Friday, April 26th. A Picture for Parco (2022) will also play at the festival on Saturday, April 27th.
Both screenings will take place at Company Brewing, 735 E Center Street, Milwaukee, WI.
still from Nightwalker | 2022 | Super 8 color on 16mm print | 7 mins
School for Poetic Computation: Sex ED
May 20th 6PM-9PM
Sex Ed is a three-week intensive designed to create the sex education we never had, but always sought. Organized by SFPC Co-Directors Melanie Hoff and Neta Bomani, with the support of Assistant Teacher Bitter Kali, Sex Ed will cover topics such as the cybernetics of sex; queering consent; BDSM communication structures; polyamory 101; surveillance and sex work; denouement as desire, and more!
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Located in-person @CreativeTime & @HexH0use
𓂃 ࣪˖ Surveillance and Racial Reproductive Control co-taught by Ayanna Dozier and Gabriella GarciaDesign by @xsainte
"Erotic Codex" at Honor Fraser Gallery
April 6th-June 8th
Honor Fraser is pleased to present "Erotic Codex," a group exhibition that surveys the liberatory affordances of sex, and the erotic devices that artists use to harness power in an evolving digital landscape. Featuring fifteen artists who embrace the body as a site for rupture, rapture, and reconciliation, the exhibition asks how emerging technologies reconfigure cultural norms around sex, just as they shape the political impact of sexuality at home and in public. In turn, Erotic Codex illuminates the entangled ways that we understand intimacy, artificiality, and our own bodies through the prolonged relationships we share with the technological objects at hand.
Co-curated by Alice Scope and Jamison Edgar at Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Touch Me on the Inside and Call Me By My Name at PLATFORM Centre
August 30th-October 11th
PLATFORM centre and WNDX festival of moving image are thrilled to co-present the first Canadian solo exhibition of works by Ayanna Dozier curated by Sarah-Tai Black.
Touch Me On The Inside And Call Me By My Name brings together new and recent film, text, and installation work that builds on Dozier’s practice of locating the body as an oft-contested site of pleasure, labour, and care. Largely utilizing tactile, analog processes, Dozier offers the personal, the intimate, and the embodied as public record. Here, the body is an index of the ways in which white supremacy has precluded collective care from intimacy, engaging with the body and self as a means of governance, dispossession, and surveillance. Drawing its name from Dozier’s citational titling of her photographic work, the works in this show render power and intimacy as a complex entanglement that affects a multiplicity of experience over time and space.
Installation Image by Daisy Wu, 2023
Nightwalker Acquired By the Whitney Museum of American Art
Via Microscope Gallery news: Nightwalker (2022) has been acquired by the Whitney Museum of American Art for its Permanent Collection.
“To be a woman who walks alone at night then is an anomaly for women who walk at night are systemically associated with sex work by state and city laws. These ‘nightwalker’ codes disproportionately target Black femmes or women who ‘make a display’ by wearing clothing that can be deemed risqué by an arresting officer. In Nightwalker (2022), I play with the ambiguity of a stylish woman walking the streets of New York’s Lower East Side. By having the camera follow my body, I aim to draw attention to how the surveillance eye overlaps with the gaze of a potential predator. The film is ambivalent as to whether or not the character is a sex worker and is more interested in the violence, both institutional and personal, that shrouds women walking alone at night.” - Ayanna Dozier
still from Nightwalker | 2022 | Super 8 color on 16mm print | 7 mins
"American Gurl" at Hauser & Wirth
June 24th-July 30th
Womxn in Windows presents "American Gurl," an ongoing curatorial project that showcases video art, film, and performance to unpack and re-envision the American Dream through the lens of women. Co-curated by Zehra Zehra and Kilo Kish, this iteration of the American Gurl project takes its shape as a group film exhibition at Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles.
The films are exhibited in the following order on a loop:
Kilo Kish, Death Fantasy, 2:10 min
Lorna Simpson, The Institute, 5:13 min
Savanah Leaf, run, 9:06 min
LaJuné McMillianin collaboration with Marguerite Hemmings, Antidote, 21:38 min
Carrie Mae Weems, Afro-Chic, 5:00 min
Ayanna Dozier, Forever Your Girl, 7:35 min
Ja’Tovia Gary, Quiet As It’s Kept, 26:00 min
Martine Syms, Meditation, 4:19 minTrick Mirror: Through the Whore’s Looking Glass
June 27
A Panel Discussion on The Gaze in Sex Worker Art
We invite you to join Veil Machine for our panel, Trick Mirror: Through the Whore’s Looking Glass, featuring Natasha Gornik, Ayanna Dozier, Gabriella Garcia, and Monika Rostvold.
Maman Brigitte Streaming on Criterion
As part of Prismatic Ground festival selections, Maman Brigitte is available to stream on The Criterion Channel through 2027.
Maman Brigitte stitches together the intimacy of a private ritual involving the Voodoo Ioa Maman Brigitte with the sound of the body (spitting, running, vomiting, etc.). These "interior" corporeal practices are juxtaposed against sweeping landscapes to draw out film/ritual's capacity to make the hidden manifest.
still from Maman Brigitte | 2021 | Super 8 color and b&w | 3 mins