Jeremy O. Harris in Conversation with Arthur Jafa | 2021 New Museum Visionaries

Playwright Jeremy O. Harris sits down with video artist Arthur Jafa to discuss the intersections between Harris's 2018 "Slave Play" and Jafa's 2017 "Love is the Message, The Message is Death." Building off their experiences, Harris and Jafa confront the "pentecostal fervor of white demons" in the contemporary audience and other white supremacist legacies that haunt the art world.

Jeremy O. Harris (b. 1989, Martinsville, Virginia) is a playwright, actor, producer, and philanthropist who currently resides in New York City. Harris is the creator of the Broadway play Slave Play (2018), which was nominated for a record twelve Tony awards and won the 2018 Kennedy Center Rosa Parks Playwriting Award, the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award, and The Lotos Foundation Prize in the Arts and Sciences. Harris co-wrote A24’s critically-acclaimed film Zola (2021) with director Janicza Bravo. He is currently adapting the sci-fi epic The New World (forthcoming) by Ales Kot for Warner Bros. Pictures. Harris also has an overall deal with HBO and is a co-producer on the television series Euphoria (2019).

Arthur Jafa (b. 1960, Tupelo, Mississippi) is an artist, filmmaker, and cinematographer. Jafa’s artwork is represented in museum collections worldwide including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Tate, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The High Museum Atlanta, The Dallas Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Stedelijk, Luma Foundation, The Perez Art Museum Miami, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, among others.

The Stuart Regen Visionaries Fund at the New Museum is an annual flagship program created in 2009 to support a series of public lectures and presentations by cultural visionaries. Visionaries recognizes individuals who have made major contributions to art and culture and who are actively imagining a better future.

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Jeremy O. Harris in Conversation with Arthur Jafa | 2021 New Museum Visionaries
Public Program on November 12, 2021

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