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“The truth I wanted to speak about is the ways in which I have felt invited into spaces, and the ways in which I’m trying and attempting to radically invite people into my space. A space that is rarified, but not only class, but cultural literacy, and a lot of other factors that bar people from entering a theater…” — Jeremy O. Harris
For today’s Black History Month post, we’re going a tiny bit out of our purview to bring you this talk by Jeremy O. Harris at last fall’s Creative Time Summit X. Harris, the playwright of the acclaimed and controversial Slave Play on Broadway, speaks about creating inclusivity in the arts, and “radically inviting” new audiences – lessons that apply across the arts.
From Creative Time:
ABOUT SPEAKING TRUTH | SUMMIT X
Can speaking truth to power unravel the age of disillusion we find ourselves in?
As fierce debates about the nature of truth rage on globally, Speaking Truth | Summit X explores radical truth-telling and its implications, manifestations, potentialities, and challenges across disparate yet interconnected fields.
ABOUT THIS SECTION
Speakers in this section analyze how we can offset the political effects that shape our present condition by re-imagining various forms of institutional, physical, and mental decolonization through empowering fictions and future utopias of togetherness. We address the effects of fiction that are critical in drawing attention to the framing mechanisms of deception and explore how art and culture have the capacity to experiment with strategies of deception and fiction that catalyze change.
ABOUT JEREMY O. HARRIS
“Being a black body in the world makes you feel kind of insane. You feel like you always want to laugh and you always don’t.”
Jeremy O. Harris is a writer and performer who combines contemporary art, popular music, and theory into provocative theater. His full-length plays include Slave Play, “Daddy”, Xander Xyst, Dragon:1, and WATER SPORTS; or insignificant white boys. He is the 11th recipient of the Vineyard Theatre’s Paula Vogel Playwrighting Award, a 2016 MacDowell Colony Fellow, an Orchard Project Greenhouse artist, a resident playwright with Colt Coeur, and is under commission from Lincoln Center Theater and Playwrights Horizons.
