Dawtas| Mirror, Mirror performance, Hyde Park Art Center, 2021, Yasmine Spiro in collaboration with Jamila Raegan, Anthony Lovejoy, Darling Squire, + DJ Major Taylor, photo credit Sophia Lee
The MPA for MPA, 2022
In collaboration with Rashayla Marie Brown
RECESS, Brooklyn, New York
As an intervention into this mainstream culture that exploits Black and queer pain, Rashayla Marie Brown (RMB) proposes The Motion Picture Association for Maintaining Personal Ambivalence. Along with collaborator Jamila Raegan, RMB will fashion the Session gallery into an independent filmmaking space where underrepresented audiences can alter the traumatic endings of movies they want to love, but cannot bear to witness. Using the aesthetics of a 1950’s writers’ room and photographic studio replete with carefully curated props, The MPA for MPA offers local filmmakers, activists, artists, and the public a chance to convene for cinematic ideation conversations that lead to the co-creation of storyboards and photographic images through the lens of Black Femme Aesthetics.
