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Diasporische Frequenzen: Was das Archiv birgt, was der Klang überträgt

Gespräch|Key Jo Lee, Delphine Sims und Darling Cool im Gespräch, in dem Fotografie, zeitgenössische Kunst und Klang miteinander in Dialog treten

  • Goethe-Institut San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

  • Englisch
  • Kostenlos und öffentlich zugänglich
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Darling Cool / Key Jo Lee / Delphine Sims Courtesy of Darling Cool / © Tinashe Chidarikire / © Lewis Watts, 2020

Darling Cool / Key Jo Lee / Delphine Sims Courtesy of Darling Cool / © Tinashe Chidarikire / © Lewis Watts, 2020

Join Key Jo Lee, Chief of Curatorial Affairs & Public Programs at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD); Delphine Sims, Assistant Curator of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA); and Oakland- and DC-based DJ and producer Darling Cool for a conversation where photography, contemporary art, and sound come into dialogue. The program draws from BLACK IN BERLIN, presented by the Goethe-Institut San Francisco, featuring Ethiopian-born, Berlin-based photographer Yero Adugna Eticha’s multi-year portrait project documenting the diversity of Black life in Germany, alongside UNBOUND: Art, Blackness & the Universe, MoAD’s group exhibition exploring Blackness through abstraction, spirituality, speculation, and expansive possibility.

Threaded throughout the conversation, Darling Cool’s musical interludes offer an embodied experience tracing Black diasporic sound from past to present — moving through memory, migration, and diasporic experience. Together, the speakers will consider how photographic archives and contemporary artistic practices open new ways of understanding Black archives, memory, and futures across place and time.

This event is presented in partnership with the Museum of African Diaspora.

Über die Referent*innen

Key Jo Lee (@keyjolee) is chief of curatorial affairs and public programs at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco. In this role, Lee oversees the strategic direction for the museum’s exhibitions and programs; leads globally on identifying and promoting emerging artists from the African diaspora; and works to expand MoAD’s reach and influence locally, nationally, and internationally.

She is responsible for the overall management and execution of the museum’s curatorial vision, including its exhibitions, publications, and public and educational programs, and plays an important role in the organization’s outreach, communications, and digital strategy. Lee has a master’s degree from and is PhD candidate in History of Art and African American Studies at Yale University.

Her first book, Perceptual Drift: Black Art and an Ethics of Looking, was published by Yale University Press and The Cleveland Museum of Art in January 2023.
 

Darling Cool is a musically eclectic DJ, producer, and event curator making fresh and meaningful waves on her bicoastal adventures living and playing between DC and Oakland. While you can catch her selecting classics, deep cuts, remixes, and edits from across various genres of music—she places a heavy emphasis on sharing soul-moving, dance-heavy beats influenced by her Nigerian and German roots, and inspired by the wide-range of house music she was raised on. She has rocked stages from San Francisco to DC to NY and beyond, playing on direct support for Jayda G, Drama, and on bills with Kaytranada, Salvatore Gannaci, MK, JYOTY, Andre Power, Snakehips, and more. Darling Cool is ½ of A Party Called Butter, creator of Black Girls Link Up, and ⅓ of the renowned Bussdown Collective.