Come Together is a series of parties hosted by and celebrating local Black queer artists who create vibrant performances, music, and nightlife in the Twin Cities today. These parties are activated within Sadie Barnette’s The New Eagle Creek Saloon, which transforms a gallery at the Walker into a fully operating queer bar. Each evening exalts queer connection, joy, and pleasure.
Under the moniker Blu Bone, interdisciplinary artist Namir Fearce’s performance practice embodies work from varying eras, cultures, and species to access an expanded empathy, an understanding of the reversal, and the way of the blues. In his work, sites of ritual and ceremony combine visually, sonically, and somatically, while creating cross communication, reverberation, and feedback loops that open an immersive portal for collective imagination. He collapses, samples, and collages Black Indigenous histories and sites of experience to transmute grief as a technology of survival and practice of cultural resistance. Fearce will be reactivating elements of his work into an hourlong performance, on the bar, beginning approximately at 7 pm.
Everyone is welcome. Must be 21+ for alcohol. The program is free, but space is limited. Entry is not guaranteed.
Accessibility, Content, and Sensory Notes
This program will include discussions of sexuality and gender.
The evening may contain flickering effects and sudden changes in pitch, tone, and volume. The gallery glows with saturated pink light.
For information about accessibility or to request additional accommodations for this program, call 612-375-7564 or email access@walkerart.org.
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Bio
Namir Fearce is a North Minneapolis–born interdisciplinary artist and cultural worker whose studio practice engages experimental film, assemblage, and performance. His work is informed by a constellation of Black Indigenous histories and sites of memory that weave complex emo-political worldscapes, while conjuring a futurity of pleasure and freedom. The emo-political is the positionality of the fugitive—those who, by embracing their indigenous technologies of survival, somatic, and pleasure-based knowledge, disturb, agitate, and resist the white fascistic cognitive schema and doctrine of domination. Fearce holds a BFA in studio art with a concentration in film and sculpture from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and an MFA from the University of Minnesota’s Interdisciplinary Art and Social Practice department. His work has been featured in Dazed, Paper, Them, Office Magazine, and the New York Times. He is a 2020 Walker Arts Fellow and a Black Harvest Film Festival–nominated director. Most recently, Fearce curated, directed, and produced the multimedia performance and storytelling festival Hi Cotton, which was has been shown in Minneapolis, Rio de Janeiro, and Berlin.
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