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URL:https://kingstonhappenings.org/events/meet-the-artist-with-marcus-morr
 is-woodstock-air/
SUMMARY:“Meet the Artist” with Marcus Morris (Woodstock AIR)
DESCRIPTION:\n\n"On Thursday\, July 23\, we welcome Marcus Morris to “Mee
 t the Artist” night at CPW. Morris will present his ongoing project\, El
 egance Is Refusal\, which reimagines Beloved by Toni Morrison as a queer n
 arrative set in Appalachian Ohio. Elegance\, to Morris\, a feminine of ‘
 cool\,’ long associated with Black culture\, considers Black queer and f
 emme identity as a source of power and refusal in a White supremacist patr
 iarchal capitalist system. Elegance Is Refusal comes from the editor Diana
  Vreeland\, who says\, “Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with be
 ing well dressed. Elegance is refusal.”\n\n\nThe project employs theatri
 cal costuming to set the stage of a Reconstruction-era landscape. Working 
 with Xavier Cruz\, cast to play Morris’s younger self\, he engages race\
 , gender\, sexuality\, history\, class\, and the promise of liberty via qu
 eer mothering and the journey to “The Clearing” in Beloved. This serie
 s of images and video is made near land his family has occupied in Ohio si
 nce being emancipated in the early 19th century. Utilizing medium and larg
 e format analog captures as well as digital photography and video\, Morris
  pursues an expansive vision for the project. It is an offering to the inv
 isible Black\, queer and Appalachian people who are his ancestors and ghos
 ts. This event will be live-streamed on CPW’s YouTube page at 6pm."
CATEGORIES:@Featured,@Newsletter,Community,Educational classes and
 lectures
LOCATION:Center for Photography at Woodstock(CPW)\, 25 Dederick St. \, King
 ston\, NY\, 12401\, United States
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