Artist talk by Evan Starling-Davis
Saturday, September 23, 4pm
Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building
In Evan Starling-Davis’s innovative exhibition, viewers can interact with the Urban Video Project’s projection on the facade of the Everson using their personal smart devices to explore the virtual world of Fracture. The installation is an Afro-Surreal poetic experience featuring 3D renderings of objects from Afro-diasporic culture in local collections and archives, including SUArt Museum, the Everson Museum, SU’s Special Collection Research Center, and the Community Folk Art Center. In this artist talk, Starling-Davis will discuss the project and allow audience members to participate in this interactive work.
Evan Starling-Davis is a Syracuse-based narrative artist, curator, and digital-age griot using a Black/Queer surrealist lens to unearth distant pasts and buried histories while promoting radical self-healing. As a community organizer and scholar-practitioner with a deep-rooted social practice of art exposure, equitable literacies, accessibility, and community mindfulness, Starling-Davis strives to create pathways for Black imagination and history to thrive.
This program is a collaboration with the Urban Video Project.