Conversations | Premiere: Carrie Mae Weems, Nona Hendryx and Hans Ulrich Obrist

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Conversations | Premiere: Carrie Mae Weems, Nona Hendryx and Hans Ulrich Obrist Art Basel Miami Beach 2022, November 30 How do artistic kinships develop? What common passions unite creatives? Conceived by Hans Ulrich Obrist, this new conversation series Art Intersections brings together practitioners across art forms to discuss their mutual affinities, interests, and concerns. Artist Carrie Mae Weems, whose influential work explores cultural identity in relation to political structures, will exchange with pioneering musician and artist Nona Hendryx about their multi-media experimentations. The Art Basel Miami Beach 2022 Conversations program is curated by Emily Butler. Curated in collaboration with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Serpentine. ‣ Carrie Mae Weems, artist, Syracuse ‣ Nona Hendryx, vocalist, composer, technologist, New York ‣ Moderator: Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Serpentine, London ‣ Carrie Mae Weems has created a complex body of art that investigates family relationships, gender roles, racism, and the consequences of power across a multitude of disciplines, including image, text, film, and performance. Weems addresses a wide array of issues, but her overarching commitment is to help us better understand our present moment by examining our collective past. Weems is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery and Galerie Barbara Thumm, and is currently artist in residence at Syracuse University. She lives in Syracuse with her husband, Jeffrey Hoone, who directed the non-profit photography organization Light Work for almost four decades. ‣ Nona Hendryx, revolutionary art-rock, new-wave goddess, is a vocalist, songwriter, musician and multimedia artist. Tackling social issues, love and politics, Hendryx’s career spans decades of sound and style evolution. Longtime fans know her as one of the groundbreaking group Labelle and their No.1 worldwide hit 'Lady Marmalade' (Voulez Vous Coucher Avec Moi C'est Soir?). She came into her own as a solo artist post Labelle on Rock infused albums. In her 2012 album Mutatis Mutandis, Hendryx blends her music with lyrics expressing a global social and political zeitgeist. Hendryx is an Ambassador for Artistry in Music for Berklee College in Boston Conservatory and Berklee NYC. She curated and performed in a production she created for The Metropolitan Museum, ‘Nona Hendryx and Disciples of Sun Ra in the Temple of Dendur’. Hendryx composed music for The Roundabout Theater’s production of the Broadway debut of Trouble in Mind by Alice Childress play directed by Charles R. Wright. She received a grant from Jazz South Arts to compose music for a new play about people of color in the fields of science, ‘Young Nerds of Color’ by Melinda Lopez, directed by Dawn Meredith Simmons at Boston’s Central Square Theater. An afrofuturist and visionary, Hendryx develops XR installations, incorporating Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. ‣ Hans Ulrich Obrist (Zurich, Switzerland) is Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries in London, Senior Advisor at LUMA Arles, and Senior Artistic Advisor at The Shed in New York. Prior to this, he was the Curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Since his first exhibition ‘World Soup: The Kitchen Show’ in 1991, he has curated more than 350 shows. Obrist’s recent publications include Ways of Curating (2015), The Age of Earthquakes (2015), Lives of the Artists, Lives of Architects (2015), Mondialité (2017), Somewhere Totally Else (2018), The Athens Dialogues (2018), Maria Lassnig: Letters (2020), Entrevistas Brasileiras: Volume 2 (2020), and 140 Ideas for Planet Earth (2021).