Ep.1: Making A Name For Yourself
Episode 1: MAKING A NAME FOR YOURSELF
American Artist, Darryl D. Terrell, and Salakastar interrogate identity and resistance through alter egos.
SHOW NOTES
Darryl DeAngelo Terrell, “Dion”
Jospehine Baker in 1932, covering her body with pearls and silk
ABOUT THE GUESTS
AMERICAN ARTIST makes thought experiments that mine the history of technology, race, and knowledge production, beginning with their legal name change in 2013. Their artwork primarily takes the form of sculpture, software, and single-channel video. Artist is a resident of Red Bull Arts Detroit, a recipient of the Queens Museum Jerome Foundation Fellowship, a former resident of EYEBEAM, Pioneer Works, and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. They have exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art; MoMA PS1; Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; and Nam June Paik Center, Seoul. They have had solo museum exhibitions at The Queens Museum, New York and The Museum of African Diaspora, California. Their work has been featured in the New York Times, Artforum, and Huffington Post. Artist is a 2021 Regents’ Lecturer at UCLA and teaches critical theory at the School for Poetic Computation.
DARRYL DEANGELO TERRELL is a Detroit Based artist who primarily works within lens based media (i.e. photography, video), performance, and writing. Also a curator, DJ, organizer, and educator. Darryl received their Master of Fine Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where they studied with Xaviera Simmons, Ayanah Moor, and Roberto Sifuentes. Darryl work under the philosophy of F.U.B.U (This Shit Is For Us*). Always thinking about how their work can add to a larger conversation about blackness, and its many intersectionalities. Darryls work explores the displacement of black and brown people, femme identity, and strength, the black family structure, sexuality, gender, safe spaces for all black bodies, and personal stories, all while keeping in mind the accessibility of art.
SALAKASTAR is a Detroit born and based actor, singer-songwriter, poet, and teaching artist working in theatre, television, film, and music. She earned her BFA and completed her classical acting training at the State University of New York at Purchase College. She is an ensemble member at A Host of People, a member of the touring company of I, Too, Sing America at the Michigan Opera Theatre, and a founding member of iii Sisters, a Detroit-based feminist writing ensemble. She is a 2018 Gilda Award Winner and a 2020 Kresge Artist Fellow in Live Arts awarded by the Kresge foundation. She serves as teaching artist at Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit, Living Arts and Youth Arts Alliance. Her debut album All Blue: Part One (Majorelle!) will be released independently through her label Salakastudios in 2021. Outside of her professional artistic practice she loves fashion, spending time with her cat, listening to records, being an auntie, and making delicious vegan meals.