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A conversation with Christian Campbell, Cornelius Tulloch, and Patrick Banks at the American Library in Paris. Filmed on 19/06/2024 with a live audience both in person and on Zoom.
On June 19, we hosted a multidisciplinary discussion featuring artist Cornelius Tulloch and 2023–24 Visiting Fellow and poet Christian Campbell. Tulloch will present his exhibition "Elements of Being," which debuted at the 2024 Venice Biennale. This innovative piece blends evocative soundscape compositions, recordings from the Everglades, and dance interpretation to advocate for environmental equality. Many of Tulloch’s projects have been grounded in his upbringing and communities in Miami, as well as inspired by his Jamaican and African- American heritage. His work expresses the ways in which bodies exist between cultures and borders, exploring the importance of cultural identity within built environments and how space shapes culture.
Bahamian and Trinidadian artist Campbell has written both poetic and critical works on diaspora. His collection Running the Dusk was described by writer Lisa Allen-Agostini as a “post-postcolonial combination of Caribbean musical forms and richly layered blank verse” whose form seeks “a new expression.” Inspired by dance and song, Campbell interrogates the multiplicity and mythology of the Caribbean, inheritance, and the formation of identity.
This event is in partnership with The Californien Agency.
About the Speakers:
Christian Campbell is the author of the acclaimed poetry collection Running the Dusk (2010), which won the UK’s Aldeburgh Prize, among other awards. Campbell studied at Balliol College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and his work has been featured and reviewed in the New York Times, the Guardian, Small Axe, the Financial Times and elsewhere. He has received awards and fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, Arvon Foundation, Ford Foundation, Fine Arts Work Center, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and elsewhere, and delivered the annual Derek Walcott Lecture for the Nobel Laureate Festival in St. Lucia. He has contributed to books on visual artists for major exhibits on both sides of the Atlantic and won the Art Writing Award from the Ontario Association of Art Galleries for his work on Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Cornelius Tulloch is a Miami-based interdisciplinary artist and architect. His work transcends the boundaries of photography, fine art, and architecture. Tulloch’s work has been shown in institutions such as the Kennedy Center, Washington D.C.; NYU Center for Black Visual Culture, New York; CUE Art Foundation, New York; Locust Projects, Miami; Faena Art Project Room, Miami; and the MAXXI, Rome. He was a 2016 Presidential Scholar in the Arts, and his work is presented as part of the permanent collection of the Studio Museum in Harlem. Tulloch has won numerous prizes and residencies; he was named an Emerging Visionary Grantee by Instagram and the Brooklyn Museum’s Black Visionaries Program in 2022, is a two-time Oolite Ellies Award recipient, and received the 2023 YoungArts Jorge M. Perez Award.
The Visiting Fellowship is supported by The de Groot Foundation.
This event is in partnership with The Californien Agency.
Evenings with an Author is generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg.
A conversation with Christian Campbell, Cornelius Tulloch, and Patrick Banks at the American Library in Paris. Filmed on 19/06/2024 with a live audience both in person and on Zoom.
On June 19, we hosted a multidisciplinary discussion featuring artist Cornelius Tulloch and 2023–24 Visiting Fellow and poet Christian Campbell. Tulloch will present his exhibition "Elements of Being," which debuted at the 2024 Venice Biennale. This innovative piece blends evocative soundscape compositions, recordings from the Everglades, and dance interpretation to advocate for environmental equality. Many of Tulloch’s projects have been grounded in his upbringing and communities in Miami, as well as inspired by his Jamaican and African- American heritage. His work expresses the ways in which bodies exist between cultures and borders, exploring the importance of cultural identity within built environments and how space shapes culture.
Bahamian and Trinidadian artist Campbell has written both poetic and critical works on diaspora. His collection Running the Dusk was described by writer Lisa Allen-Agostini as a “post-postcolonial combination of Caribbean musical forms and richly layered blank verse” whose form seeks “a new expression.” Inspired by dance and song, Campbell interrogates the multiplicity and mythology of the Caribbean, inheritance, and the formation of identity.
This event is in partnership with The Californien Agency.
About the Speakers:
Christian Campbell is the author of the acclaimed poetry collection Running the Dusk (2010), which won the UK’s Aldeburgh Prize, among other awards. Campbell studied at Balliol College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and his work has been featured and reviewed in the New York Times, the Guardian, Small Axe, the Financial Times and elsewhere. He has received awards and fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, Arvon Foundation, Ford Foundation, Fine Arts Work Center, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and elsewhere, and delivered the annual Derek Walcott Lecture for the Nobel Laureate Festival in St. Lucia. He has contributed to books on visual artists for major exhibits on both sides of the Atlantic and won the Art Writing Award from the Ontario Association of Art Galleries for his work on Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Cornelius Tulloch is a Miami-based interdisciplinary artist and architect. His work transcends the boundaries of photography, fine art, and architecture. Tulloch’s work has been shown in institutions such as the Kennedy Center, Washington D.C.; NYU Center for Black Visual Culture, New York; CUE Art Foundation, New York; Locust Projects, Miami; Faena Art Project Room, Miami; and the MAXXI, Rome. He was a 2016 Presidential Scholar in the Arts, and his work is presented as part of the permanent collection of the Studio Museum in Harlem. Tulloch has won numerous prizes and residencies; he was named an Emerging Visionary Grantee by Instagram and the Brooklyn Museum’s Black Visionaries Program in 2022, is a two-time Oolite Ellies Award recipient, and received the 2023 YoungArts Jorge M. Perez Award.
The Visiting Fellowship is supported by The de Groot Foundation.
This event is in partnership with The Californien Agency.
Evenings with an Author is generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg.
