I Am Ladi’Sasha Jones | OPEN CALL 2021 | THE SHED

Ladi’Sasha Jones is a writer and curator from Harlem, whose work explores the conditions of Black interior life through text and design works.

Jones’s “Black Interior Space” proposes a new conceptual and participatory framework for reflecting on Black interior sociality, or the inner lives of Black people and the cultural production they shape. Through research and writing on Black interior space and design, Jones created a playful kit of modular discs that can connect to one another in open, adaptable, free-form ways. The project culminates in participatory workshops organized around a set of design prompts for collective critical thinking on worldbuilding and mapping the local.
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Visit https://bit.ly/3uZnvMZ for more about “Open Call,” and to discover other original commissions ranging from pop to classical music, painting to digital media, theater to literature, and sculpture to dance.
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Launched as part of The Shed’s inaugural year program, “Open Call” is a large-scale commissioning program for early-career NYC-based artists. For this second iteration, artists and interdisciplinary arts leaders, including Shed staff, selected 27 artists out of 1,500 proposals to present work in 2021 and 2022. Selected artists each received a commissioning fee of up to $15,000 depending on the scope of their projects, robust production support, and resources to further nurture their practices and expand their audiences.

For the first iteration of “Open Call,” 52 artists and collectives selected in 2018 were commissioned to present boundary-pushing new work beginning in May 2019. The presentation of work by some artists was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. They will present their work in 2021 and 2022 along with the artists selected in 2020.

Meet the other artists presenting in 2021 and learn more about their commissions here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0_2sMP3p8dgMd_QQGMhHqup-5Jo9JcTZ

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