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Brooklyn Museum's QUESTION BRIDGE: BLACK MALES Exhibition Extends Through 7/15
By: Kelsey Denette Jun. 05, 2012
Question Bridge: Black Males a video installation created by artists Chris Johnson and Hank Willis Thomas in collaboration with Bayeté Ross Smith and Kamal Sinclair. Originally scheduled to close on June 3 this acclaimed exhibition has been extended through July 15 at the Brooklyn Museum.
Over the past four years, Johnson, along with Hank Willis Thomas, Bayeté Ross Smith and Kamal Sinclair, have traveled the nation collecting questions and answers from over 150 Black men in eleven cities including: New York, Chicago, Oakland, San Francisco, Birmingham, Atlanta, New Orleans, and Philadelphia. The resulting video project contains of over 1,500 exchanges. By focusing on exchanges within this extended community, surprising insights and new possibilities for witnessing our common humanity emerge.In the 1,500 video exchanges, the words are woven together to simulate a stream-of-consciousness dialogue, through which important themes and issues unfold. The subjects addressed include family, love, interracial relationships, community, education, violence, and the past, present, and future of Black men in American society. The men represent a range of American geographic, economic, generational, educational, and social strata.
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