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Artist: muthi reed

Category: Video Installation

Location: Sorellina at the Divine Lorraine, 699 N. Broad St

Date & Time: Thursday, July 24th - Sunday, August 3rd

it be your own people is a cinematic assembly of reference materials contextualizing the love needed to thrive particular to people in a city called Philadelphia, and even more particular to Black North Philadelphians. We make a shrine for ourselves as descendants channeling the energy of those millions of Black folx who left the american South, fleeing the predetermined violence of that space. Traveling a calibrating sequencing of images and symbols, we generate a shrine for the lovers- my maternal Grandparents who met in the 1940s as temporary residents and newly immigrated UpSouth workers at the Divine Lorraine Hotel. Media materials are assembled, disassembled and assembled again to articulate the world of its subjects. The calibrating environment is created in collaboration with an ensemble of writers, family members, technicians and rhythm keepers. This work is a meditation of relationship, intervention, devotion, critical fabulation, chromotherapy, ecology, possibility, desire and difficulty.

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muthi reed sitting on ground by wooden desk muthi reed

muthi reed is an ethnographic artist living and working in Philadelphia, PA (Lenapehoking) and New Orleans, LA (Bulbancha). Working in sound, visual media, public art and design, their work explores rhythm, memory, gesture, embodiment and sound. They use personal and public information and ephemera to create speculative situations that can inspire healing and release from past pain and a portal into future possibilities.