Vibrations for a New People
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Vibrations for a New People

A view looking up at disco ball on a ceiling. Caption below reads: "put your hands inside"
Amina Ross, Man's Country, 2021. Image courtesy the artist.

How does a gesture, image, or word from history get passed down across time and space? What does it make possible in the here and now? Riffing on themes found within the exhibitions Keith Haring: Art is for Everybody and Sadie Barnette’s The New Eagle Creek Saloon, the cinema series Vibrations for a New People considers queer cultural legacies and transmission, exploring how the past resonates powerfully in the present. Guest curated by writer Jon Davies, this series examines how signals sent decades ago cry out to be heard today and how conversations started by those who came before are rekindled in the present when lessons from past movements demand to be relearned.

Read guest curator Jon Davies’s related article here.