Description

Students participating in Kalup Linzy's course this summer viewed the works of the lead artist and created responses as a video under 1 minute long and rooted in their individual interests.  Linzy’s work is a pantheon of thirty plus personas, many of which he performs in drag, that recur throughout a fictional network of interconnected relationships that inform an epic, narrative saga.  In his video and film works, he serves as writer, director, cinematographer, editor, and actor—and, in a distinctive strategy, he also voices and overdubs the dialogue of multiple characters that he doesn’t physically portray.  In exploring the interwoven threads of his characters, he is embroiled in the politics of performativity; of identity, race, gender and sexuality.   The works are also produced in the mediums of photography, live performance, and painting.  These efforts are mostly presented in art galleries, museums, music venues, art house theaters, art fairs, radio, local record shops, and/or the internet. Photo Credit: Conversations Wit De Churen III:  Da Young and da Mess (2005).  16min 56sec.  Video.  Courtesy of artist and David Castillo, Miami, FL. Please visit Kaluplinzystudio.com to learn more about his work.