B.R.U.H. is a culmination of reflections on personal and collective identity that seeks to expand the vantage points, frameworks and preconceptions in viewing people of African descent. The works are strongly influenced by LWB in the United States and Italy. Blending and bending various vernaculars from Afro-Descendant people, a carefully extracted language emerges which through text, multimedia installation and performative actions poetically transforms the black body and its relationship to the world.
Black Representation Urges Healing
considering what a brother is, how implications of blackness affect men and their functions as brothers in the world.
inspired by Jill Scott's song "Brotha" released in the year 2000.
young Black males are born into a world that is more than capable of nourishing an protecting them. does this world want to do it's diligence?
chalked silhouettes are known well to a generation of your black bodies. many times those silhouettes are reflections of the dead. what does it redefine the silhouette of the Black body? more specifically how do you redefine the image of the Black male body?
are you listening to the worlds that define my life? i'm speaking to you.
with use of Stevie Wonder's song "Living for the City" released in 1973.
indulge in the game if you must, learn the rules first. then you may decide if you want to partake.
"space" to be heard.
what seeps from the void? (wee Video & Sounds page)
we share "space" because it was meant for us all.