White Privilege: Panel Discussion and Performance
White Privilege: Panel Discussion and Performance
Thomas DeFrantz, writer/performer
Quran Karriem, composer/performer
CTSA Dean Tiffany Ana López, moderator
Drama Professor Vincent Olivieri, organizer
January 24-25, 2025
Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL)
A performative lecture by Thomas DeFrantz with live sound design and electronic music by Quran Karriem, White Privilege engages white privilege as a discourse, casting the performative space as an opportunity to enlarge care and do better.
Image credit: Photo by Thomas DeFrantz; design by Philip Thompson
Panel Discussion
Friday, January 24, 2025, 11 a.m.
Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL)
Join us for a conversation with writer/performer Thomas DeFrantz and composer/performer Quran Karriem about their work, White Privilege. Dean Tiffany Ana López will moderate a discussion about the creative heritage of the work and its importance to the ongoing conversation about equity within institutions.
Snacks will be provided!
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Performance
Saturday, January 25, 2025, 4 p.m.
Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL)
Writer/performer Thomas DeFrantz and composer/performer Quran Karriem perform their piece White Privilege.
Free admission with registration
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Image credit: Rebecca Cummins, Shooting Stars: Benjamin Moore, 2007. Digital print, 24 X 36 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
The Beall Center for Art + Technology opens the exhibition Engaging the Margins on Saturday, Jan. 25, with an opening reception at 2 p.m. Experience both the White Privilege performance and the Engaging the Margins exhibition all in one day!
Quran Karriem, composer/performer of White Privilege, is featured in the book project that led to Engaging the Margins and an interview with him is part of the exhibition. The book, Antoinette LaFarge's and Jesse Colin Jackson's anthology Experimental Practices in Interdisciplinary Art: Engaging the Margins (Brill, 2024), launches alongside the exhibition.
The gallery is open Tuesday-Saturday, 12-6 p.m., through April 19.
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