Board Member
Mendi + Keith Obadike
Mendi + Keith Obadike have exhibited and performed at The New Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art. Their projects include a series of large-scale, public sound art works: Blues Speaker (for James Baldwin)—a twelve-hour, twenty-four-channel musical work—at The New School and Free/Phase at the Chicago Cultural Center & Rebuild Foundation, among others. They have released recordings on Bridge Records and books with Lotus Press and 1913 Press. Their honors include a Rockefeller New Media Arts Fellowship and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, among others. Their recent projects are Anyanwu, a public sound installation; Book of Light, a sound and light show commissioned by Carnegie Mellon University; Lift, a meditation on the the song known as the Black National Anthem (“Lift Every Voice And Sing”); the overnight (eight-hour) musical work, Lull, a sleep temple; a sound film entitled, The Sun; and a sound/video work entitled Difference Tones.
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Book, e-book
Studies into Darkness: The Perils and Promise of Freedom of Speech
Conversation
Studies into Darkness: Editors and Artists in Conversation

Oct 13, 2022
Book Launch, Performance
Studies into Darkness: The Perils and Promise of Freedom of Speech Book Launch

Jun 7, 2022
Talk
Mendi + Keith Obadike

Apr 17, 2015
Party
Mendi + Keith Obadike: Blues Speaker [for James Baldwin]

Apr 2, 2015
Exhibition

Mendi + Keith Obadike: Blues Speaker [for James Baldwin]
Apr 1–Apr 30, 2015
Symposium
Prime Meridian Unconference

Apr 15–Apr 17, 2022
Panel, Performance
Freedom of Speech: A Curriculum for Studies Into Darkness

Sep 20–Sep 21, 2019
Seminar Overview
Freedom of Speech: A Curriculum for Studies into Darkness

Nov 12, 2018–Sep 21, 2019
Screening
The Year of James Baldwin

Nov 3, 2014–Mar 22, 2015
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