Black Beyond: Warpmode with Tamar Clarke-Brown and Jazsalyn, featuring Dreamcrusher
Presented by Onassis ONX and Pioneer Works
WHAT: Black Beyond’s Warpmode with Tamar Clarke-Brown and Jazsalyn WHEN: Friday, October 18th, 6PM-9PM WHERE: 161 Water St, Floor 3 - Entrance on Water & John St.
Join us for the Black Beyond’s first Warpmode activation at Group Hug. Presented by Onassis ONX and Pioneer Works.
Onassis ONX and Pioneer Works present an activation of a new Metalabel project, Black Beyond’s Warpmode, during Group Hug at WSA. The program will feature a conversation between curator Tamar Clarke-Brown, Serpentine Arts Technologies, who commissioned artist Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley’s work in Group Hug and Jazsalyn from Black Beyond. The conversation will be followed by a performance from Dreamcrusher.
Black Beyond’s Warpmode is a conceptual card game and thought experiment that challenges accepted reality and stimulates abstract conversations about Black metatheories. In the game, players draw cards and respond to existential prompts to reconfigure Black social and theoretical frameworks such as Afrofuturism, Afronowsim, Afrovoidism and Afropocalypse.
For this activation, the first in the Warpmode program series, Salome Asega will guide Tamar Clarke-Brown and Jazsalyn in an exploration of black metatheories. Following the discussion, attendees are invited to play Warpmode together, accompanied by a live soundscape and then performance by Dreamcrusher.
Warpmode is created by Jazsalyn, Artistic Director, Black Beyond, and launches on Metalabel on October 22, 2024.
Black Beyond’s Warpmode with Tamar Clarke-Brown and Jazsalyn is co-presented by Onassis ONX, Pioneer Works and Serpentine Arts Technologies, in collaboration with Metalabel.
The Warpmode Programming series is co-presented by Onassis ONX and Pioneer Works, in partnership with Metalabel.
This event will be recorded, livestreamed and archived on Serpentine Arts Technologies Twitch channel. If you are joining online, you’ll need to make a free Twitch account to watch and interact with the chatroom.
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Jazsalyn is an ONX member and the creator of Black Beyond Warpmode. As an artist and technologist, she works where fiction and reality collide. Through alternative media and re-indigenization her work considers new data models and memory restoration to preserve Ancestral Intelligence. Jazsalyn is the Artistic Director of the experimental curatorial project Black Beyond and teaches at The New School where she has written studio coursework on African and Diaspora rituals as speculative technology. Afropocalypse is a new conceptual framework by Jazsalyn featured in Warpmode and a forthcoming exhibition. Afropocalypse seeks to extend and reframe Afropessimism through the context of loss, regeneration, and the multidimensional cycles of apocalypse.
Tamar Clarke-Brown is an artist, writer and Curator (Arts Technologies, Serpentine). Her work centres alternative mythologies and diasporic practices, with a special focus on platforming underrepresented and overlooked imaginaries. At Serpentine, her work involves commissioning new artworks, events, research and R&D projects engaged with experimental worldbuilding and exploring the untapped civic and social potential of technologies. Most recently she commissioned and curated the collaborative video game project, web3 tokens and exhibition Third World: The Bottom Dimension, led by Brazilian artist Gabriel Massan. Currently she is working with artist, game designer and archivist of Black trans stories, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley for a new interactive game commission, exhibition and R&D project opening at Serpentine North Autumn 2025.
Salome Asega is an artist and researcher exploring models for technology and its development that are cooperative, distributed, and people-centered. Asega is the Director of NEW INC, an art, design, and technology incubator program at the New Museum that offers artists professional development, mentorship, and shared workspace. She is a co-founder of POWERPLNT, a digital art collaboratory in Brooklyn, also sits on the boards of the Jerome Foundation, the National Performance Network, and School for Poetic Computation.
Organizations / Partners
Black Beyond
Black Beyond is an experimental project, where antidisciplinary artists imagine alternate realities for blackness.
Metalabel
Metalabel is the first release platform for creative work. It’s a space for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, writers, and other creators to release their work, be discovered and supported, and support one another.
Pioneer Works
Pioneer Works is an artist and scientist-led 501(c)(3) nonprofit cultural center in Red Hook, Brooklyn that fosters innovative thinking through the visual and performing arts, technology, music, and science. We provide visual and performing artists, musicians, scientists, technologists, community organizers, and educators the resources and platform they need to expand their practices. Our approach encourages experimentation and empowers curious minds across diverse communities, knowledge bases, and frames of reference; in so doing, Pioneer Works aims to accelerate culture through the free exchange of ideas and information for all.
