{"id":4665,"date":"2016-08-09T13:00:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T17:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/?p=4665"},"modified":"2016-08-02T13:40:14","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T17:40:14","slug":"aug-26-do-or-die-affect-ritual-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/aug-26-do-or-die-affect-ritual-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"AUG 26 &#8211; Do or Die: Affect, Ritual, Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Opening Reception<br \/>\nDo or Die: Affect, Ritual, Resistance<br \/>\nFriday, August 26<br \/>\n6:30 PM &#8211; 8 PM<br \/>\nHalsey Institute of Contemporary Art<br \/>\n161 Calhoun St, Downtown Charleston<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Reception is open to the public and includes complimentary refreshments and light hors d\u2019oeuvres.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"id_579d0caa297b84662730465\" class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art presents DO or DIE: Affect, Ritual, Resistance featuring the work of Fahamu Pecou. This exhibition will be on view at the Halsey Institute August 26 &#8211; October 8, 2016. Admission to the galleries is free.<strong>ABOUT THE EXHIBITION:<\/strong><br \/>\nThis solo exhibition features the work of Fahamu Pecou, an artist profoundly involved in exploring the state of Black existence \u2013 life and death \u2013 today. Violence in our society is endemic and pervasive. Undeniably Black bodies are disproportionately <span class=\"text_exposed_hide\">&#8230;<\/span><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">affected, through the shameful legacy of slavery and Jim Crow to current day shootings \u2013 the massacre at Charleston\u2019s own Emanuel AME church in summer 2015 sadly just one tragic example of many. In the midst of this Pecou asks, \u201cUnder looming threat of death, how might we inspire life? Through what mechanisms could we resist the psychological violence and despair inspired by the threat of violence and usher in hope?\u201d Or how might art serve as a \u201cspace of resistance?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>DO or DIE: Affect, Ritual, Resistance<\/strong> serves as one artist\u2019s action in opposition to these overwhelming societal forces, seeking instead to elevate and re-contextualize Black life and death. Through performance, painting, drawing and video Pecou reframes our view, incorporating references from Yoruba\/ Ifa ritual to cultural retentions of hip-hop to the philosophy of N\u00e9gritude, and through this shapes a story that seeks to affirm life via an understanding of the balance between life and death.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0LEARN MORE: <a href=\"http:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhalsey.cofc.edu%2Fexhibitions%2Ffahamu-pecou%2F&amp;h=9AQHcA-1D&amp;enc=AZPzJwUtst4DuB9pgsmS6gqptogzI08_YeUZROMhb4LuydGqoI8R4cfbZaMohRjpMZI&amp;s=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">http:\/\/halsey.cofc.edu\/<wbr \/>exhibitions\/fahamu-pecou\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opening Reception Do or Die: Affect, Ritual, Resistance Friday, August 26 6:30 PM &#8211; 8 PM Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art 161<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/aug-26-do-or-die-affect-ritual-resistance\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1600,"featured_media":4666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,19,8,11,18,44,5,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4705,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665\/revisions\/4705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}