Black Life: Transition as Miracle @ BAMPFA

What happens when two performance artists—identities unknown to each other as well as to the audience until the day of the show—come together?

The artists featured in this event share Nigerian heritage, though they span artistic disciplines, oceans, and points of origin. Whether filmic, sculptural, culinary, tattooed, or costumed, their respective works, informed by Black Queer/Trans need and necessity, inhabit the threshold between here and gone, spirit and skin, gender and masquerade. Given their histories of insisting on duration and Black togetherness, they will share a miraculous collision.

This improvisational performance concludes this yearlong series titled AS LONG AS THERE ARE CATASTROPHES, THERE WILL BE MIRACLES, organized by Black Life guest curator Gabriele Christian. Each installment promises an exciting pairing. Thus far, Bay-based artists jose e. abad and Audrey Johnson (Harvest as Miracle); and Bay-born Pangaea and Brooklyn-based Ogemdi Ude (Memory as Miracle) have graced the museum halls. We invite you to experience this season's fourth and final "mystery duet".