DCA Arts and Cultural Calendar
December 2019
Umar Rashid (Frohawk Two Feathers): The World You Know Is A Fiction. You Know We Had to Do A Remix, Right? Vignettes of The Frenglish Empire in North America (1780-1795)
Within his artistic practice, Umar Rashid blends fictional and real histories, while freely traversing both time and world geography. Rich with detail, Rashid’s paintings, drawings, and sculptures reference colonialism, empire, and westward expansion in the Americas during the 18th century, remixing global players – African, European, and indigenous peoples – in a process of storytelling and mythmaking. By reworking the historic projects of colonization, war, and the making of nation-states, Rashid creates alternate narratives, scripting a different past for human…
Umar Rashid (Frohawk Two Feathers): The World You Know Is A Fiction. You Know We Had to Do A Remix, Right? Vignettes of The Frenglish Empire in North America (1780-1795)
Within his artistic practice, Umar Rashid blends fictional and real histories, while freely traversing both time and world geography. Rich with detail, Rashid’s paintings, drawings, and sculptures reference colonialism, empire, and westward expansion in the Americas during the 18th century, remixing global players – African, European, and indigenous peoples – in a process of storytelling and mythmaking. By reworking the historic projects of colonization, war, and the making of nation-states, Rashid creates alternate narratives, scripting a different past for human…
Umar Rashid (Frohawk Two Feathers): The World You Know Is A Fiction. You Know We Had to Do A Remix, Right? Vignettes of The Frenglish Empire in North America (1780-1795)
Within his artistic practice, Umar Rashid blends fictional and real histories, while freely traversing both time and world geography. Rich with detail, Rashid’s paintings, drawings, and sculptures reference colonialism, empire, and westward expansion in the Americas during the 18th century, remixing global players – African, European, and indigenous peoples – in a process of storytelling and mythmaking. By reworking the historic projects of colonization, war, and the making of nation-states, Rashid creates alternate narratives, scripting a different past for human…
Umar Rashid (Frohawk Two Feathers): The World You Know Is A Fiction. You Know We Had to Do A Remix, Right? Vignettes of The Frenglish Empire in North America (1780-1795)
Within his artistic practice, Umar Rashid blends fictional and real histories, while freely traversing both time and world geography. Rich with detail, Rashid’s paintings, drawings, and sculptures reference colonialism, empire, and westward expansion in the Americas during the 18th century, remixing global players – African, European, and indigenous peoples – in a process of storytelling and mythmaking. By reworking the historic projects of colonization, war, and the making of nation-states, Rashid creates alternate narratives, scripting a different past for human…